Title: Lust and Chastity
Description: Darien Avery followed Caitlyn Sinclair to Rockhampton, Australia, memories of their very heated and intense love affair fresh in his mind. Arriving in North Queensland, he soon discovered he wasn’t the only man in this new country infatuated with this breathtaking blonde haired beauty.

Women fitting the description of Caitlyn were being found dead, victims of the worst kind of sexual sins. Every clue pointed Darien in the direction of his own family. Desperate to protect Caitlyn, he sends her up north to her family hoping to keep her safe. When he received word that her body, along with a man’s, was found shot dead near one of his packing sheds his heart broke.

Caitlyn Sinclair fled from the packing shed in Rockhampton, fearful of the murder she had just committed. Instinct told her to go to the one man who would always keep her safe – Darien Avery. But when she found him, he was already holding another woman in his arms. Broken hearted, she fled up north to the town of Jarvisfield and to her father, determined to live her life independent of any man.

Being accused of murder, Darien flees north to Jarvisfield to start again. It didn’t take long for more women to be found dead, and he knew the man who had been butchering women back in Rockhampton must have followed him north.

When he glimpsed the familiar beauty of Caitlyn Sinclair, relief filled him to find her still alive. He knew then he must warn her of the man hunting her and put an end to this horror. But when he goes to offer her his protection, Darien soon discovers she is no longer his lustful lover, rather a lady of chastity.

*Warning: contains sex, strong language, and some violence*
Subjects: Spicy Historical Romance, Western & Frontier Romance, Victorian Historical Romance, 19th Century Historical Romance Books, Historical Australian & Oceanian Fiction, Historical Romantic Suspense Fiction, Australian Historical Romance, Romance Collections & Anthologies, 7 Deadly Sins, Second Chance Romance
Places: London (England), North Queensland, Queensland (Australia)
Time periods: 1870