Mistress of the Night (St. James Family #1)
Valerie Vayle

Born in an English bawdy house, schooled in the cunning and thievery of the streets, barely escaped from the hangman's noose, exquisite Viveca Lindstrom would be transformed from a wild urchin into an elegant lady.
She would return from the Turkish court to marry a handsome young aristocrat, to build a stable of champion Thoroughbreds. Yet even as her newly acquired polish conquered the peerage, it was the love of Byrne St. James, the darling dark-eyed highwayman, that haunted and held her, taunting her with the promise of madcap adventure, untamed freedom, and wild, rapturous desire.
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The 'St. James Family' series
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historical · length-medium · friends to lovers · other-man-woman · tortured hero · miscarriage · death · love triangle · incest · working class heroine · slow burn · open-door · animal-death · independent heroine · class difference · tortured heroine · sweet-hero
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