"...darkly atmospheric gothic tale set in Cornwall...will allure readers..." -Booklist Innkeeper's daughter Jane Heatherington is sold into indentured servitude to cover her father's debts, sold to Aidan Warrick, a man whose handsome face and form mock the rumors that skulk in his shadow, rumors that paint him a smuggler, a pirate...and worse. On the rainswept Cornish coast, Aidan's business is carried out in the darkest hours of moonless nights, his secrets are many, and death follows in his wake. Isolated and alone, Jane's only companion is the man she dare not trust, the man who looks at her with heated desire that she both fears and craves. As she finds herself ensnared in the twisted schemes carried out within the walls of Aidan's looming estate, Jane must decide if Aidan Warrick is the dark prince of her dreams or a monster preying on the innocent... "With her ability to create the perfect chilling atmosphere, a dark, tormented hero and an intrepid heroine, Silver rises to the ranks of Victoria Holt and Daphne du Maurier..." -RT Book Reviews, Winner RT Reviewers Choice Award "...an outstanding tale about two wounded souls with so much feeling and emotion that there were times my eyes became a little misty...Eve Silver deserves praise for this complicated and moving story." -Fresh Fiction