title: Shadows
author: Brown, Kristin L.
description: As a child, Elle lived oblivious to the dangers of her world, until the day her parents were murdered. From that moment on, her life would never be the same. Forced to live as a prisoner in her own home, and under the thumb of her vile uncle, desperation forces Elle to take her life into her own hands. Her reckless quest for freedom puts her in the care of the mighty, and terrifying, Lord Oarin Arlington. She is taken from the crumbling Windstrom Manor, and introduced to live a life she never knew was possible. In spite of her second chance for a bright future, her past continues to resurface and Elle's greed driven uncle with stop at nothing to gain what he seeks. Elle's fiendish uncle knows a tangled secret about her past and a hidden fortune he longs to take as his own. It will all be his if Elle cannot find the courage within herself to remember the clues hidden in the shadows of her past. Through her growing affection for the man who has become her guardian, she struggles to learn how to love, forgive and live, Elle finds everything she's longed for.