An Innocent Deception

the long version

THE NOTORIOUS LADY NORWOOD Evelyn, Lady Norwood, the young wife of the wealthy and handsome Lord James Norwood, was one of society's most dazzling beauties -- and on her way to becoming the most scandalous. For despite her perfect marriage and ideal mate, she had joined a circle of bluebloods conspicuous for high living and loose morals -- a circle headed by the elegant, unprincipled Jonathan Dancer, who did not mask his desire to be more than Evelyn's friend. No one, and especially not her increasingly hostile husband, suspected the secret that drew Evelyn ever closer to the brink of folly and ruin as she staked her good name and love itself on the most dangerous gamble a proper but impetuous young lady could take....