Love's Illusion — Katherine Sutcliffe

He pulled her toward him, catching her wrist as she lifted her hand to deny him. His mouth closed hard on hers, punishing it tenderly. She heard herself moan...

Beautiful young Mercy Dansing knew the dark side of desire. Struggling to survive in the savage slums of Victorian London, she learned to be on guard. And though that squalor was left far behind when she entered the enchanted world of Greystone, a walled estate so near and yet so far from the teeming city; Mercy still resisted the magnetic attraction of its master, Dominick D'Abanville. This handsome, iron-willed man, famed for his feats of illusion on stage and his conquests of the heart, had to use all his sensual sorcery to make her fears vanish in the power of passion....