Love at First Step. Dumont series, #5

When Gavin MacLeod visited his English friends at Silloth Keep for the Christmas holidays, he is drawn to the intrigue surrounding a woman, a harlot, who arrived without any explanation other than her trade. But in trying to learn her secrets, he begins to fall in love with a young woman who is kind and intelligent and in need of a hero. Elizabeth was sold to a brothel by a greedy husband trying to rid himself of a barren wife.
Seeking only a place where she can survive, Elizabeth found sanctuary at Silloth Keep. She never dreams that she might find a new life-and a new love-when a Scottish warrior comes to visit. With the magic of the Christmas holidays around them, will she be strong and brave enough to face her future when Gavin offers her a chance at love? LOVE AT FIRST STEP was previously published by Harlequin Historicals and is now republished by the author via Luckenbooth Press.