![]() ![]() But instead of a custody battle, he chooses to falsify their marriage, re-claiming Charlotte as well. ![]() Alex, heir to the Duke of Hastings, moves his considerable powers to claim his son. Her return sets a chain of events into motion that no force on earth could stop. Charlotte is back in England, with her four-year-old son Nicholas. The letter was fake, but the damage is already done. She received a letter that her twin sister is deathly ill. But because she loved him too much to expose him to the social censure that would result if the secret of her parentage was revealed. ![]() And what a story it is!Ĭharlotte Rutherford abandoned Alex Hastings at the altar five years ago, and ran away to America. In this case, it’s the revelations and their aftermath that drive this story. However, in An Heir of Deceptionby Beverly Kendall all of that is just backstory to the actual novel. Those elements would make for enough drama for one story all by themselves. Runaway brides, secret babies, family secrets, blackmail and alcoholism. ![]()
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