La Perla Secreta (Paperback)

from LadyWesley

This books, a Mary Balogh classic from 1991, is gripping, dark, and ultimately uplifting. In the opening chapter, a man hires a young, sad looking woman outside Covent Garden and proceeds to have swift and rather brutal sex with her, realizing only after it's too late that she is a virgin. Afterw...

from ancestorsearch

He first spies her in the shadows outside a London theatre, a ravishing creature forced to barter her body to survive. To the woman known simply as Fleur, the well-dressed gentleman with the mesmerizing eyes is an unlikely savior. And when she takes the stranger to her bed, she never expects to s...

from mom2lnb

The Secret Pearl is far more than a mere romance novel. It is an exquisite love story of two people who fall in love against seemingly impossible odds, and whose love for one another never fades despite being kept apart by circumstances beyond their control. All this occurs amidst the hero and he...

from bhryk0

I had been impressed by several books by Mary Balogh before, but this one is simply outstanding. The story starts with a difficult, raw scene of a man using the services of a prostitute in a seedy London hotel. For the first time since he married, Adam Kent, Duke of Ridgeway, is being unfaithful ...

from Anniik

This is a dark and rather bleak book. The first scene is emotionally horrible and while the book has a happy ending, there is not a great deal of happiness anywhere else in the book. There is all kinds of sadness - the sadness of unrequieted love, the sadness of being seperate from the one you lo...