What harm could one night of pleasure do?
Cybil Bythesea is imprisoned in a marriage that ended ten years ago. That's when she fled the cruelty of her husband, Lord Falstone, and took refuge at her father's estate in Northumberland. Since then, her family's money has kept the villain at bay, and she's been able to pursue her creative passion-writing. But freedom, true freedom, has been beyond her grasp.
Except for her clandestine liaisons with Will.
Will Chisolm is haunted by the past, the tragedy of his family's eviction from their ancestral Highland farm, then his own foolish descent into political radicalism. Even now that he's gained wealth and respectability as the manager of a set of spinning mills in Glasgow, he's burdened with more responsibility and guilt than anyone knows.
But there's something about Cybil-a lightness, a kinship that, at least temporarily, makes all Will's troubles fade away. It's a dangerous game. Cybil is his employer's sister, the wife of his political enemy and for the last four years, his lover.
She's also with child. Will's child. And their world, their lives, will never be the same.
"...an achingly beautiful world of love, desperation, intrigue, a reckoning with the past, and a twisty, emotional journey. I loved it from start to finish and continue to think about it days later in the best possible ways." -
Reader review
A Radical Affair is the third book in the Darnalay Castle Series, although all of the books in the series can be read as standalones. For fans of Diana Gabaldon, Kerrigan Byrne and Julia Bennet, this novel is the perfect mixture of realistic history and heart-wrenching romance. It contains themes which may be disturbing to some readers (see the author's note in the sample pages) and several spicy open-door scenes.