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The second novel in THE PERFORMERS family saga. For eighteen years Abel and Lilith had deliberately led separate lives: Abel as a surgeon, Lilith as an actress. During these yearsof isolation Abel becomes a tyrannical father and husband, the situation finally exploding when his eldest son defies him, determined to make his way in the world as a poet, not a doctor. When Jonah meets Lilith at the theatre, he is bewitched by her beauty and is caught in her spell - the same spell that his fatherhas been desperately trying to break for years.

Intelligent, practical Mary Challoner knew wicked Dominic Alastair, Marquis of Vidal, wouldn't marry her sister, despite her mother's matchmaking schemes. So Mary coolly prepared to protect her sister by deceiving Vidal. But she certainly hadn't expected the infuriated nobleman to kidnap her! Reluctantly awakening to his responsibility—and realizing just how serious Mary was about her virtue—Vidal proposed marriage.But after all the carefully laid wedding plots he'd dodged, Vidal had never expected to be refused by a chit! Baffled, bewitched and frustratingly tempted, Vidal swore that Mary would be his wife. Even if it was the last thing either of them ever did