The Masked Heiress

the long version

Lovely young Gina Buxton had to say yes to the sleek stranger who visited her in Newgate Prison. Only by agreeing to be his pawn in a sinister plot of impersonation could she escape rotting in a living hell. Thus this friendless foundling girl entered London society as the long-lost granddaughter of a powerful and aging lord. But not even her beauty and grace could still the malicious gossip about her. Not even the sweetness of wealth and privilege could keep her secret shame from growing. And not even chilling fear of being unmasked could quench her longing for elegant, arrogant Edward Peregrine, though this worldly-wise aristocrat clearly suspected the truth, and toyed with her like a cat with a mouse