Temptation And Surrender - Number 17 in series

Trouble and secrets

When Emily Beauregard applies for the position of innkeeper on Jonas Tallent''s Devonshire estate, nothing can prepare him for the trouble that follows. Little does he realise that Em has an agenda of her own: to discover her family''s treasure, guided by a cryptic rhyme. Orphaned, near penniless, the treasure is her and her siblings'' future, but solving the rhyme is no easy task.

Passion and danger

Only once she accepts Jonas as her lover and enlists his aid do they start to unravel the clues. But someone else has the Colyton treasure in their sights, and the closer Em and Jonas draw to her family''s legacy, the greater the danger - and the passion between them - grows...