Book overview In this sizzling Regency romance by USA Today Bestselling author Charlie Lane, a lady with a secret runs from the gentleman who loves her.

She’s not who she says she is.Shadows, secrets, and Jackson Cavendish—all things Miss Gwendolyn Smith runs from.

She’s determined to live a life of obscurity, studying dusty tomes.

Better that steady present than her haunting past or a future she cannot have.

When a letter arrives that threatens her secrets and Jackson tells her he’se done waiting, she must choose—face her past and gain a future? Or continue running from both.He fell first, but he’ll win at last.Mr.

Jackson Cavendish has chased Gwendolyn for six years but only caught her once.

In Paris at midnight.

He’ll never forget what she felt like in his arms.

And he’s determined to repeat the experience.

Every night for the rest of their lives.

But how to convince the woman he loves to trust him with her secrets?He's tried seduction.He's tried retreat.Now he'll have to reveal his own fears and secret guilt.When these two scholars must dig into their own pasts, they’ll learn how to build a future from it or lose each other forever.***A longer version of the prologue of Love a Lady at Midnight was previously published in Sunflower Season in 2022.

This novel picks up where that prologue left off.***