A Respectable House — Jan Jones

Seven years ago, Kitty made the biggest mistake of her life when she was tricked into eloping with a scoundrel. Now her husband is dead at the hands of London's most dangerous criminal - and he's after Kitty, too. Guarding Kitty and her six-year-old daughter Ann is dark, cynical Nicholas Dacre, who presents a reckless face to the world, frustrated by the constraints of his family name. He is as scarred as Kitty, but in her company, the rigid tenets he grew up with are tumbling faster than the autumn leaves...