She is saved from being raped by her doctor by the intervention of the police, alerted by a friend of hers, Countess Blackwell (the heroine of books one of this series, The Highwayman), and is taken in by the Blackwells while she recuperates. Locked away in an asylum by her libertine husband who claims that she has debauched tastes when in fact he’s the abusive one and has run through her inheritance, she is abused sexually and spiritually day and night by the staff. Vincent, Viscountess Benchley, is a woman of great determination. He’s returned to Scotland to assume the mantle of laird and try to return justice and order to his clan after years of his father’s misrule. He has, in response to his father’s cruel teachings, become a soldier for the crown and a killer supreme so legendary that people whisper he made a deal with a demon to gain his fearsome skills. When we first meet him, he’s pulling the rotting skeleton of a bawdy woman he once knew out of a bog, a woman the local gossip accuses him of murdering. Liam MacKenzie, Lord Ravencroft, is a man of action.
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