Rexanne Becnel

**Will Lacie Montgomery hold fast to her greatest deception, or succumb to the

seductive stranger who is bent on learning the truth?** **** From acclaimed

romance writer Rexanne Becnel comes a story of passion and hidden identity in

the post-war American South. As a dark figure on horseback approaches the

resplendent Louisiana estate of Sparrow Hill, a chill runs through Lacie

Montgomery, the lovely head of the Sparrow Hill School for Young Ladies,

because she is not exactly who she appears to be—and the exposure of her

darkest secret could mean the closing of her beloved school and the end of its

rightful place in the Kimbell family legacy. But Dillon Lockwood, the bastard

Kimbell son, can see right through her, and he plans to extract her secret and

save his family’s fortune, even if it means taking her to his bed, where

deceit will crumble in the heat of a lover’s embrace.