The Autumn Wife — Lisa Ann Verge

THE AUTUMN WIFEA runaway wife. A dangerous man. A passion worth the peril.Cecile Tremblay vows she'll never be a victim again. The twenty-four-year-old King's Girl escapes an abusive husband-a hanging offense, by the frontier laws of rough-and-tumble Montreal. Determined to avoid the noose, Cecile grasps a last-ditch way to secure sanctuary by joining a convent. But she didn't expect to meet Theo Martin, a burly, broad-muscled stonemason overseeing the building of the convent's nearby chapel. Hiding a troubled past of his own, the protective giant gently hammers at the walls around her hardened heart. As Cecile's emotional defenses weaken, the law closes in, forcing her to make an impossible choice.Can Cecile trust this unsettling stranger, or should she seal herself behind convent walls forever?