num_pages: 352
description: Destitute and desperate Catherine Weston accepts the summons from her childhood friend Madeline St. Aubyn to attend her at Cairncroft Abbey a place of secrets lies and murder. Madeline's health is in a poor state and she is terrified of her cousin Gabriel. But Gabriel has quite a different effect on Catherine stirring longings and desires she believed long buried. Gabriel St. Aubyn is haunted by the horrors of both his past and his present horrors he conceals behind a remote unapproachable facade. He is drawn to Catherine but is determined to protect her from the tragedies that yet have claws sunk deep in his soul. Then a young woman is found dead and Madeline's ravings point to a link between this horrific crime and Gabrieland Catherine must decide if he is a man worthy of her love or a sinister stranger determined to make her his next victim.Note: All books in the Dark Gothic series can be read as stand-alone novels.
language: English
title: Seduced by a Stranger
publisher: Eve Silver