Cover of Sweet Release (Blakewell/Kenleigh Family Trilogy, #1)

Sweet Release

Pamela Clare

Blakewell/Kenleigh Family Trilogy #1

historical romance(4k)

A wrongly convicted nobleman works as an indentured servant for the one woman he both desires and must deceive.

Content Warnings
sexual assault (past or present)abuse (physical)captivityviolence/gore

Description

For five pounds in cash, the convict was hers. Though Cassie hated the slave trade, her Virginia plantation demanded the labor, and she knew this fevered man would surely die if she left him. But as his wounds healed and his muscled chest bronzed in the sun, Cassie realized Cole Braden was far more dangerous than his papers had indicated—for he could steal her breath with a glance and lay siege to her senses with a touch.Abducted, beaten, and given a new name, Alec went from master of an English shipbuilding empire to fourteen years of indentured servitude in the American colonies. There, he was known as Cole Braden, a convicted ravisher and defiler of women. And while he longed to ravish the auburn-haired beauty who owned him, he knew his one hope of earning her love—and his freedom—was to prove his true identity. Only then could he turn the tables and attain his ... Sweet Release.

Blakewell/Kenleigh Family Trilogy series

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