This is PART ONE of The Rake And The Recluse, it has been completely re edited with new scenes and new images and is being released as it was originally intended, as a six part serial novel. This is NOT a series it is a SERIAL, that means it has to be read in order. Francine Larrabee woke up on the wrong side of the century. She was fairly certain she went to sleep in her own comfy bed, but she doesn’t quite seem to be there now. Only adding to her problems is that she has no voice, is constantly being glowered at by a large, stunning man who is obsessed with propriety, and she is apparently betrothed to another horrid little man, determined to ruin her, and any other girls that get in his way.How does she find herself in the past, when she couldn’t even find herself in her present? How does a self sufficient businesswoman survive in a time when women were still considered property for the whole of their lives and what is she going to do with this man who draws her to him so fiercely.

Camellia was Daniel‘s first love.They met as children at a conservatory formusically gifted youth in New York City.A composer and pianist, ike peas in a pod, they latchedon to each other, an inseparable pair of friends.It wasn‘t until they were both fifteen that theirrelationship shifted. . .from that of composer and pianist. . . to so much more.But something happened.Without warning Meli‘s parents took her backto their home country of France—and they haven‘t seen or spoken to each other in the ten years since.Daniel has only wanted one thing since then—to have that girl back.The one who cusses in French when she comes.The one he can’t get out of his head.But the reason Meli left, the reason she hasn‘t reached out to Daniel after all these years, is a secret she‘s terrified to share.When Meli gets an invitation to try out for an...