SUMMARY:
Everyone says Lord Ian Mackenzie is crazy-and possibly a murderer-but a young widow longing for passion is determined to bare the truth about the dashing and darkly charming Scotsman.
The year is 1881. Meet
the Mackenzie family--rich, powerful, dangerous, eccentric. A lady
couldn't be seen with them without ruin. Rumors surround them--of tragic
violence, of their mistresses, of their dark appetites, of scandals
that set England and Scotland abuzz.
The youngest brother, Ian,
known as the Mad Mackenzie, spent most of his young life in an asylum,
and everyone agrees he is decidedly odd. He's also hard and handsome and
has a penchant for Ming pottery and beautiful women.
Beth
Ackerley, widow, has recently come into a fortune. She has decided that
she wants no more drama in her life. She was raised in drama--an
alcoholic father who drove them into the workhouse, a frail mother she
had to nurse until her death, a fussy old lady she became constant
companion to. No, she wants to take her money and find peace, to travel,
to learn art, to sit back and fondly remember her brief but happy
marriage to her late husband.
And then Ian Mackenzie decides he wants her.
The first of a new historical series.