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The Shadow of Sin

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It is bad enough that the beautiful Celesta Wroxley and her brother, Sir Giles, are alone after their mother had scandalously left their father and ran off with her lover to the disapproval and outrage of Society.

To make matters worse Sir Giles has seriously gone off the rails in London, drinking heavily and gambling away what little money they have. And he has come heavily under the influence of the sinister Lord Crawthorne, who appears to be encouraging him to new excesses.

To her horror Celesta finds that her brother has lost their delightful home, The Priory, at the gaming tables. And that their estate, including the Garden Cottage that they have made their home, are now owned by the mysterious Earl of Meltham.

When she meets the new owner, it is not in the best of circumstances. He comes upon her in the estate peach house, where she is picking the fruit.

Sardonically accusing her of stealing the handsome but cynical Nobleman forcefully takes her in his arms and kisses her.

Celesta has never before been kissed and she hates the Earl for his arrogance.

But, when Sir Giles ends up in the debtors’ prison, the Earl saves the day in more ways than one and she starts to see him in a whole new light.

Will this light of love finally bring Celesta out of the shadow of her mother’s sin?

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AUTHOR’S NOTE
AUTHOR’S NOTEThe description of the Coronation of King George IV, His Majesty’s clothes and the extravagant banquet are all authentic. Queen Caroline died on August 8th, exactly twenty days after she was refused entry to Westminster Abbey for her husband’s Coronation. On the day of the Queen’s death, the yacht Royal George had arrived off Holyhead. The King had all the masts of the squadron lowered as a sign of mourning. On August 12th, His Majesty’s fifty-ninth birthday, he crossed the Irish Sea ‘in great spirits’. The State Visit, for the first few days of which the King remained quietly ‘in seclusion’ as a mark of respect to his wife, was a triumphant success. “The King was always fond of children,” Lord Melbourne told Queen Victoria. His Majesty bought an enormous amount of children’s playthings to give away as presents. His accounts in the Royal Archives show bills for dolls and lead soldiers, boxes of ninepins, miniature farm yards, play houses, mechanical animals, rocking horses, games and toys of every description.

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