BY ELIZABETH ELLEN CARTER
What the False Heart Doth Know
CAN TWO LOVERS STOP THEIR STORY BECOMING A TRAGEDY?
A Regency historical romance novella set at Christmas and associated with the Gems of London series. Originally published in the Dragonblade Publishing boxed set, A Duke in Winter, now available as a standalone novella.
Lady Sapphira Galbraith’s secret romance with Earl Anthony Redthorpe is over and he is engaged to another.
Spending Christmas and the New Year with cousins in storm-battered Norfolk, she puts on a false face of happiness.
The only one who seems to understand the depth of her heartache is cousin Innes who suggests a marriage of convenience to him.
As she considers his proposal, the storm blows in unexpected guests – Anthony, his fiancee Elizabeth, and her family.
Sapphira learns that Anthony’s father has died and he is now Duke. What’s more, he has discovered the depth of his father’s deceit in forcing him into betrothal to Lady Elizabeth.
Is it enough for hope to grow in Sapphira’s broken heart?
Against the backdrop of an amateur performance of Macbeth, the two lovers must work out how to prevent their story from becoming a tragedy.
