His Dark Desires

Though the Civil War had ended years ago, Juliet Boucheron still battles for survival in 1874 New Orleans. She'd been shunned by her family and friends when her husband was labeled a traitor after disappearing with a shipment of gold during the Civil War.

By turning her ancestral home into a boarding house, despite the whispers of scandal, Juliet has been providing for her younger sisters and raising her young son. The safe world she thought she had built becomes threatened, and she and her family are thrust into danger when the secrets from the past surface.

She doesn't know who to trust and even more disturbing than the warning note she receives is the handsome, seductive stranger who enters her household. Stephen Trevelyan is a tortured man with secrets. A man with blood on his hands. Wealthy, compelling, and deadly handsome, he awakens her senses like no other man before and fills her nights with passion. He also fills her mind with suspicion. Strange things begin to happen when Stephen appears in her life. Can she really trust this irresistible stranger?

Someone is lurking in the shadows. Someone is stalking the halls of her home after midnight. And someone is willing to kill to get what they want. Juliet is forced to face the nightmares and ghosts in her past in order to catch the murderer hiding in her life, but by then it may be too late to save those she loves from death.