Dark Prince
by Eve Silver
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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…
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With a cry, Jane jerked upright. There were hands
on her shoulders, not rough, but gentle, soothing, reassuring. Aidan’s hands.
He had wakened her. She shuddered. It was a memory. A dream. A nightmare. She
had not suffered its coming for so long that she had dared to hope it would
never return.
She tried to chase away the frightening
recollections that snapped at her, crossing the boundary from dream to
wakefulness. Rigid and distraught, she stared at nothing, haunted by images
that yet felt real, memories that refused to rest. The fire had died and the
room was couched in blackness, chilled as the frost-kissed air.
“Jane, lie against me, sweet. I will let none harm
you, not even the demons of your dreams.” Aidan’s voice calmed her flayed
nerves. His big, warm hands guided her as he drew her against his muscled chest
and wrapped her in the safe harbor of his arms. She did not resist, drawn by
his strength and the kindness of his touch. “Sleep now,” he commanded, his
breath caressing her cheek as he tucked her close, warming her with the heat of
his body.
He was solid against her back, his hand gentle as
he stroked her hair. She could feel the steady rhythm of his heart, the even
cadence of the rise and fall of his chest.
The horror of past memories faded, and she drifted
toward sleep.
The nightmare had come for her, and Aidan Warrick
had not let it take her.
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AUTHOR Bio and
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National bestselling author Eve Silver
has been praised for her “edgy, steamy, action-packed” books, darkly sexy
heroes and take-charge heroines. Her work has garnered starred reviews from
Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Quill and Quire, two RT Book Reviews
Reviewers’ Choice Awards, Library Journal’s Best Genre Fiction Award, and has
been nominated for the Romance Writers of America® RITA® Award. RUSH, her first
book for teens was listed as a 2013 American Bookseller’s Association Best Book
for Children and a Canadian Children’s Book Centre Best Books for Kids and
Teens. Eve lives with her husband, two sons, an energetic Airedale terrier and
an exuberant border collie/shepherd.
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