Nightingale Park

the long version

**SHE WAS FORCED TO CHOOSE BETWEEN HER HUSBAND'S PROTECTIVE LOVE AND HER STEPSON'S RAGING PASSION Pretty, red-haired Megeen Ahearn was young, innocent and bewildered when she landed in Boston after the long, lonely voyage from Ireland.** Behind her was a childhood of misery. Ahead was an unknown future in the frighteningly foreign land. But neither her most shining hopes nor most chilling fears could match the fate that lay in wait for her. **For when Megeen accepted Alexander Vickery's offer of his distinguished name, she took as a husband a man old enough to be her father - and a stepson grown up enough to be her lover.** And all of Megeen's vows and dreams hung suspended as a mounting tide of passion shattered the most sacred taboos and made her a slave to burning physical desire....