Risk of Ruin

Now she belongs to another, he realizes too late that he wants her. 

Lady Annalies is the daughter of the Earl of Innesford, but rejects society.  Instead, she embraces the Bohemian art world, and lives in secret with her patron and lover, Tobias.  The only person who knows the truth is her cousin, Peter, who furiously resents the burden of knowing how she courts disaster for the entire family. 
 
When sales of her paintings diminish, putting her in financial straits, Annalies turns to Peter for help, as he has always helped her in the past.  Peter grasps the chance to involve himself in her life, to head off the catastrophe she flirts with every day.  The entanglements increase when he realizes it is not merely the risk of ruin which draws him to her. 
 
This book is the eleventh in the Scandalous Scions series, bringing together the members of three great families, to love and play under the gaze of the Victorian era’s moralistic, straight-laced society. 
 
This story is part of the Scandalous Scions series: 
0.5 Rose of Ebony 
1.0 Soul of Sin 
2.0 Valor of Love 
3.0 Marriage of Lies 
3.5 Scandalous Scions Boxed Set 1 
4.0 Mask of Nobility 
5.0 Law of Attraction 
6.0 Veil of Honor 
6.5 Scandalous Scions Boxed Set 2 
7.0 Season of Denial 
8.0 Rules of Engagement 
9.0 Degree of Solitude 
10.0 Ashes of Pride 
11.0 Risk of Ruin 
12.0 Year of Folly 
13.0 Queen of Hearts 
 
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