Viola knows it’s not proper but she agrees. They end up spending the night together and Marcel suggests that they run away together for a couple of weeks.
Viola agrees and has more fun with Marcel then she’d had in a very long time – even when she was married. Now she’s free and he suggests they spend the day at the town fair. He knew she was married but he couldn’t help flirting with her. She told him to “go away” years earlier and he had abided by her wishes. He knows that she’s no longer married and though he knows he shouldn’t, he approaches her. Marcel is on his way home to deal with family issues when he sees Viola. She ends up in a little village overnight and who does she meet there but the man she’d fallen in love with 14 years earlier. She leaves Bath in a hired carriage (many family members had offered their carriages and servants but she’d refused) and just her luck, the thing breaks down. She knows she’s horrible for not appreciating it more but she finds it smothering. Even the Westcott family, which she was never legally a part of, shows her love and kindness. She would have thought that she’d be over it all by now but when she heads to Bath for her grandson’s christening she’s inundated with her family. She retreated to her brother’s home trying to deal with the emotional aftermath. Two years ago Viola’s husband died and she found out that her marriage of 23 years had been bigamous. When the two defy convention and run away together, they discover that the ties of respectability are not so easily severed, and pleasure can ensnare you when you least expect it.
A prize that eluded him before, she is all the more irresistible to him now although he is surprised to discover that she is as eager now for the excitement he offers as he is himself.
Viola caught his eye when she herself was a young mother, but she evaded his seduction at the time. Marcel Lamarr has been a notorious womanizer since the death of his wife nearly twenty years earlier. With her children grown and herself no longer part of the social whirl of the ton, she is uncertain where to look for happiness-until quite by accident her path crosses once again with that of the Marquess of Dorchester, Marcel Lamarr. Two years after the death of the Earl of Riverdale, his family has overcome the shame of being stripped of their titles and fortune-except for his onetime countess, Viola. Once the Countess of Riverdale, Viola Kingsley throws all caution to the wind when adventure calls in the form of a handsome aristocrat. Also in this series: Someone to Love, Someone to Hold, Someone to Wed, Someone to Honor, Someone to TrustĪmazon | Barnes & Noble | The Ripped Bodice | Google Play Books
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