The Secret Heart by Erin Satie6/1/2023 Secretly a bare-knuckle boxer, Bexley buries the pain of his sister’s disappearance and presumed death and the betrayal of his best-friend by training as boxer and pounding into laborers at late-night fights under an assumed identity.Ĭaro and Bexley’s romance is not at all straightforward. The visit is welcome respite from depredations she experiences in her father’s home, and when she meets Adam Spark, Lord Bexley, the Duke’s son alone one night, she sets her sights on him, but first she runs from him frightened by his thuggish appearance.īexley is not tall but he is imposing and brutish. She has been invited to spend time with Daphne, niece to the Duke of Hastings at the family’s country estate. She is flinty, determined but honest in her intentions. Caro is determined to secure a wealthy husband so she can provide for her younger brother Robin and herself in the ways her father hasn’t. She armed Caro with a cynical world view, coquettish charms and the exacting discipline of ballet. Caro was raised by his mistress Giselle, a former ballerina he had installed in their home as governess. In The Secret Heart, we are introduced to Caroline Small, a mercenary debutante, the daughter of a dissolute Viscount.
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