The Smuggler's Bride Author:Rosalind Laker From the moment young Harriette Mead first laid eyes on Benedict sutcliffe on the streets on Regency London, she felt the spell of this powerfully built, darkly handsome man. But only months later--deep in the lonely quiet of the English countryside-- did she learn the true depth of his hold on her. — Harriette was a widow now--after a strange, b... more »rief marriage to a dying old man. She had come to the crumbling manor of Bryony Lodge to take possession of her mysterious legacy. There Benedicyt sutcliffe was waiting...to warn her of the cruel curse of the past...to be her guide in a worldof primal terror so far from the aristocratic elegance of London...to be her loving protector as inexorably she was drawn toward the nightmare abyss so cunningly prepared t receive her body and drown out her screams.« less