Beneath The Oil And Lace

THE BLURB:

England, 1904.

Miss Clara Wycliffe has been raised to be admired, presented, and wed - in that order.

Possessed of her father's stubborn intellect and her mother's devastating beauty, she has thus far resisted every eligible gentleman placed before her, and made enemies of several in the process.

Edward Ashford Wren, Earl of Thornmere, does not pursue women of quality. He has never needed to. With a fortune built on Texas oil and an English title purchased at considerable expense, he commands every room he enters and has made peace with wanting nothing he cannot immediately acquire.

Until a country weekend in Wiltshire places Miss Wycliffe across a dinner table from him, and she contradicts him - publicly, precisely, and without a trace of apology.

What follows is a collision of old world and new, of propriety and hunger, of power and its most exquisite surrender. In a world where Clara has no vote, no legal standing, and no acceptable occupation, she will discover the one arena where she holds absolute authority - and the one man powerful enough to kneel.

Some arrangements cannot be spoken of in daylight.

Some truths are only told in locked rooms.
Some men only become themselves on their knees.

For readers 18 and over. Contains explicit content, power exchange, and material of an adult nature throughout.