Lisbon

Beautiful young Charlotte Gayle hoped to be saved from a forced marriage by Tom Westing. In the strong arms and under the fiery kisses of this handsome seafaring adventurer. Charlotte had learned the power and passionate beauty of love. But elegant, iron-willed Rowen Keynes cast a different spell on her when he snared her into wedlock and fathered her two lovely daughters. Charlotte was wed to one man -- in love with another ... and torn between both -- in an exotic city vibrating with passion and danger, where everything was possible and nothing was safe...

As this sprawling, frothy romance set in 18th-century England and Portugal opens, orphaned 15-year-old Charlotte Vayle falls in love with dashing young adventurer Tom Westig. It is the day when "she first realized what it could be like between a man and a woman." When Charlotte learns that her profligate uncle plans to pay his debts

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Where to read Lisbon

Lisbon 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.