NightShade21o9
Winnifred Calderwood is a wildflower in a garden of perfectly trimmed, prickly hedges. As the youngest daughter in a powerful but crumbling family, she's spent her life caught between duty and defiance.
While her sisters master the art of smiling through insults, and her brothers vanish into secrets and shadows, Winnie dreams of something far beyond the suffocating drawing rooms of England: America.
But freedom, as always, comes at a cost.
When a brooding stranger arrives-tall, charming, mysterious, and frustratingly attractive, with a past that refuses to stay buried-Winnie loathes him on sight. Naturally. He might also be her only way out.
And she absolutely hates that.
Worse still, the more time she spends around him, the more complicated everything becomes. Loyalties shift. Secrets crack open. And Winnie finds herself entangled in a family drama more twisted than a ballroom waltz.
In a house where everyone is hiding something-some of them hiding each other-tempers run high and someone is always storming out of a room. (Usually Elijah.)
Now, Winnie must navigate scandal, family politics, and her own unruly heart to claim the life she wants.
But the wildflower of Calderwood was never meant to bloom in a garden of rules.