The Slow Awakening — Catherine Marchant

She was a beautiful lost child driven into womanhood by the terrible passions that ruled men's hearts...

LUSTED AFTER, DECEIVED, LOVED BEYOND REASON AND PASSION

Kirsten MacGregor was a creature tossed about by the whim of a harsh destiny. Orphaned early, she learned to survive brutal hardship. On the brink of young womanhood, she was sold from the servitude of a cruel baby farm into the even crueler hands of an elderly tinker.

But fate had only begun testing Kirsten's strength and spirit. She was still to carry the child of her vicious master. She was still to face the threat of death. She was still to deal with the dark shadow of a terrible secret that kept her from the tenuous promise of happiness and love, a love she ached to share with the one man who could bring her lonely heart to... The Slow Awakening.