The Unscrupulous Uncle

Catherine Braxton had adored Damon ever since she was a little girl - and Damon was her older brother's best friend. But that was long ago. Her brother was gone now - slain in war. Catherine herself was an orphan in a household of rapacious relations who had reduced her to shocking servitude. And Damon had become the Earl of Devlin - engaged to the most beautiful belle of the ton. Why then had he come to see her after eight years? Why did he claim he wanted to wed her - when it was clear he passionately loved another? Was Damon paying a secret debt to her brother at cruel cost to himself? Or was he intent on making a fortune by taking Catherine to be his wife? Catherine had to find the answer--even though it might break the heart she had long ago lost to him.