title: Ember
author: Callihan, Kristen
description: Callihan has a great talent for sexual tension and jaw-dropping plots that weave together brilliantly in the end." --- Diana Gabaldon,  New York Times  bestselling author  After a fire consumes the Ellis family fortune, the beautiful and resourceful Miranda finds herself faced with an impossible dilemma: enter a life of petty crime or watch her family succumb to poverty. But once her fiance learns of her descent into danger--and of the strange, new powers she's discovered --saving her family may come at the high price of her heart.   When Lord Benjamin Archer's one chance for redemption is destroyed by corrupt London antiquarian Hector Ellis, he vows to take what Ellis values most-his daughter Miranda. Forced to hide his face behind masks, Archer travels the world hoping to escape the curse that plagues him so that he can finally claim his prize.  But once Archer returns home to London, will it be revenge he seeks? Or will the flame-haired beauty ignite new, undeniable desires?    Word Count: 21,850 words.