Delia Donovan is a young woman who has been living in Heather Harbor, a fictional port town of the Eastern Seaboard of the United States of America. In the year 1929, before the stock market crash and the great depression, is where Delia and her best friend break into a house, leading them to an object that neither suspect is more important than the usual two bits they get for stolen goods.
As Delia is chased by a mysterious woman with a hidden face, we follow her through the streets of Davenport where she grew up and goes to try and sell it, and back to Heather Harbor, where she and a handsome man, Mathew Lang, will embark on a trip to New York City, where she gets involved further with The Tenth Cube. Along the way, we'll meet many other chracters and go through a variety of different places, where Delia must discover the use of the artifact and, aided by her new friends, to find if and where it must be returned.
In just a few days, Delia's life will have changed forevermore.
Just when she's decided to leave the Town, Lady Cressida Belverst is forced to marry Lord Calan Haverston, the man who coincidentally knows a way out. Agreeing to marry for all the wrong reasons, can Cressida and Calan find out where their hearts truly belong?
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It is impossible to leave the Town, but one woman is determined to escape with the help of her betrothed.
Lady Cressida Belverst has always been judged as a walking scandal. Oh, how she tries (on some rare occasions) to be proper! When her parents arrange for her to marry a rich lord, Cressida has had enough. She has to leave the Town because she will not be forced to live with a man she doesn't love. But what happens if the very man she's betrothed to is the only one who can help her get out?
Calan Haverston, the Lord of Easton, takes the risk and helps his betrothed by using his knowledge of the Town's secrets because he is as willing as she to stay free of marriage for reasons completely different. He has dark secrets he cannot share with her, and his life is not one he can likewise open to anyone. But what happens when she leaves after awakening desires he thought he has under control? And what happens when he finds himself longing for her?
Cressida goes to a completely different place, one she has only heard in stories and read in books, with hopes of finding what her heart has always longed for. But love, mystery and secrets will chase her and it will only be a matter of time before she realizes what her heart truly desires.
*This story is a standalone title in the Haverston Family series.