Behind the Mask

*Two lovers are torn from each other by their feuding families.*

When Duncan Buchanan and Isobel Porter met at a masquerade ball, they thought they’d found someone to change their distaste for matrimony. When their mothers tore them out of each other’s arms, they found themselves trapped between two feuding families, each matriarch willing to destroy the other, even at the cost of their children’s happiness.

Duncan and Isobel knew nothing of their families’ hatred for each other, nor did they care to become involved with whatever scheming acts of revenge their mothers are planning. Willing to sacrifice everything they have just to be together, they arrange an assignation. Nothing could prepare them for what happened in the churchyard that night though, driving them from town and each other.

Heartbroken by their year of separation, and the rumours about his indiscreet associations, Isob

Tropes & themes

Victorian Western

More by Faye Hall

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Where to read Behind the Mask

Behind the Mask is widely available in ebook and print — check your library, Kindle Unlimited, or your preferred retailer. Prefer to start a whole collection at once? The Margot St. James bundle gives you ten full-length Regency romances for less than the price of one paperback.