Beyond the Ashes

Alyse Brogan is promised in marriage by her parents to a man twice her age, but it isn’t going to happen.

Why? Because she has met a man behind a sequined mask at a Masquerade ball at her grandmother’s mansion in Paris who has stolen her heart and turned her world upside down. Fun and sensual, the book weaves lies with love, treachery with truth, two people whose passion and persistence allow them to come together.

Theirs is a love that spans two continents, from the mansions of Paris to the Oil Fields of Pennsylvania.

Alyse Brogan, daughter of the richest banker in Philadelphia is engaged to a man twice her age, but while attending a Masquerade Ball at her grandmother’s mansion in Paris, she is swept off her feet by a grey eyed stranger behind a sequined mask, Robàire DuMont, a counter-fit count who manages to change her life forever, but when the evening ends he is nowhere to be found and she has no way of knowing who he was or how he came to be there, only that somehow she has lost her heart to him. Returning to Philadelphia, she ends her engagement to David Haines and leaves for Franklin Pennsylvania to teach school, where she meets Robàire’s Counter part, Bud O’Rouke. Soon putting it together that Robàire and Bud are one and the same, she not only goes along with the masquerade but she finds herself in his arms and in his bed.

Robàire DuMont is a man caught between two worlds, his father’s world as an aristocrat, and that of his mother’s, a Madame. The one thing he knows is, he is in love with the auburn haired beauty. Alyse Brogan and that from the first time he saw her, he had fallen in love, but Robàire harbors a dark secret that keeps him from proclaiming his love for her, at least until he can finish his mission for the United States government, until then she and her family’s lives are in danger and he is the only one who can save them.