title: Julius - Heart of Iron
author: Paige, Lori
description: In the 1830s, Eleanor Travers has resigned herself to living a quiet life as housekeeper to her uncle, an expert in antiquarian occult books. She is stunned when he demands she marry Mr. Helling, a vile man with a cadaverous look and a vaguely threatening air. Shaken, she turns to Julius Pagan, another scholar who frequently calls on her uncle. To her surprise, Julius offers to help her out of the arrangement by eloping with her.
  
  As she considers whether to run away with Julius, Eleanor learns a bizarre truth about both her suitors. Marrying Mr. Helling might be a fatal mistake, but some things might be worse than death—such as becoming the bride of man who is already dead. Yet she cannot deny that the strength of her feelings for Julius might just lead her to take the biggest, and possibly the last, risk of her life.