Proper decorum has never come easily to Carlotta Anne Fairleigh not even tonight, when the lovely, impetuous miss is finally making her debut. For years he has fought the temptation to embrace his dark gifts, never realizing that Portia’s love may give him the most dangerous gift of all… Julian knows he must drive Portia away but his passion and hunger for her grow more irresistible every time they touch. And a recent spate of murders makes Portia fear that the man she has always adored may truly be a monster. His fruitless pursuit of his stolen mortality has reduced him to drunken debauchery. But the Julian who has returned to London is not the vampire she remembers. Portia quickly discovers that Julian’s seductive and forbidden kiss can still make her crave the night…Īnd his touch. He returns five years later to find the enchanting young girl he left behind grown into a bewitching woman with a woman’s heart…Īnd a woman’s desires. Once, as a girl of seventeen, beautiful, headstrong Portia Cabot saved the cursed life of the dashing vampire Julian Kane who marked her forever, then left to go in search of his soul. So why does he still want her so badly for himself? Stealing his enemy s bride was simple, but can he claim her innocence without losing his heart?

But he cannot allow either one of them to forget he is her enemy and she his pawn in the deadly Highland feud between the clans. Jamie expects Emma to be some milksop English miss, not a fiery, defiant beauty whose irresistible charms will tempt him at every turn.

Though he is Hepburn s sworn enemy, Emma s mysterious captor is everything her bridegroom is not handsome, virile, dangerous…Īnd a perilous temptation for her yearning heart. Passion sparks in USA Today and New York Times bestselling author Teresa Medeiros’s irresistibly tempting new romance after a sexy Highlander kidnaps his rival s spirited English bride Emmaline Marlowe is about to wed the extremely powerful laird of the Hepburn clan to save her father from debtor s prison when ruffian Jamie Sinclair bursts into the abbey on a magnificent black horse and abducts her in one strong swoop.

Shadows and Lace by Teresa Medeiros