title: The Winterley Scandal (A Year of Scandal)
author: Elizabeth Beacon
description: Elizabeth Beacon has a passion for history and storytelling and, with the English West Country on her doorstep, never lacks a glorious setting for her books. Elizabeth tried horticulture, higher education as a mature student,&nbsp;briefly taught English and worked in an office, before finally turning her&nbsp;daydreams about dashing, piratical heroes and their stubborn and independent heroines into her dream job; writing Regency romances for Harlequin, Mills and Boon
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  Under the gaze of the ton!
  
  As the daughter of wild Pamela Winterley, Eve has always lived in the shadow
  of scandal. Society watches her every move, waiting for Eve to prove she is
  just as wayward as her mother...
  
  Ever since his father’s scandalous affair, Colm Hancourt has lived life on his
  own terms. But then he comes face-to-face with Eve, the daughter of his
  father’s mistress! It may have begun with a kiss that set tongues wagging, but
  could the latest Winterley scandal be the start of something special?
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  He was so strung out with hot curiosity, he broke first.
  
  He bridged the final gap between them with a kiss that healed yet burned like
  wildfire at the same time. Haste, heat, fury, excitement and a pinch of doubt
  roared through him in a heady tangle he couldn’t begin to sort out. Then she
  kissed him back and that wild rush of feelings melted into just her, just
  them.
  
  “Closer,” he urged, until they shifted together so the