Sweet Poison

Sarah Montrose is the illegitimate daughter of four generations of illegitimate daughters. All she wants out of life is to live a life free of scandal, and most particularly, free of men and the calamity they tend to cause in the Montrose women’s lives. Her dream is to become an independent woman, and with the help of her cousin, who invites her to London to join in her business as a modiste to the demimonde, it is close to being realized. Working beside her free-thinking, self-sufficient cousin, Sarah realizes that women can be independent of men and actually thrive!
Then one warm evening while attending the bohemian salon of Gabriel Rossetti, she bumps into the one man who is the very definition of her aversion to men, the Marquis of Deauville, Anthony Fitzhayne. From the moment they meet, there can be no denying the magnetic pull that brings them together time and again. Though he is charming, witty, and impossibly handsome, he is also conniving in the typical manner of his rakish peers and intent on having his way, no matter what she feels—and what he wants is her for his next mistress!
Sarah soon finds to her utter horror, despite being fully aware of his arrogance and selfish persistence—and the knowledge that this man went through mistresses by the drove—that he is the one man she is unable to resist.
Will love find two such stubborn souls, or will its sweet poison destroy them both?

Wendy is an award winning author of historical romance