title: Caresse
author: Wallace, Pamela
description: Brooding Passions . . .
  
  Swept into the shamelessly sensual society of rich Edwardians, the innocent and beautiful American actress Caresse Cantrell, is shocked when she becomes the victim of the king's violently jealous mistress, Lillie Langtry. To save her own reputation as Edward's favorite playmate, the celebrated courtesan cleverly manipulates a scandalous alliance between the vulnerable ingenue and the handsome, strangely fascinating Lord Nicholas Lancien.
  
  Wed against her will, Caresse refuses to admit she is deeply and desperately in love with her brooding husband . . . until she learns that Nicholas is still tortured by the memory of his first wife, Megan.
  
   With slowly mounting horror, Caresse discovers that she is caught in a web of desire spun from beyond the grave. For the eternal evil of the spectral beauty is everywhere . . . threatening the happiness that Caresse has hidden within her haunted heart.
  