Ravenswood's Beloved Monster

Beloved Beast takes place forty-eight years after the first book in the Ravenswood Chronicles, Beloved Monster, to find that the protagonist Lucas Madden is now a widower of over eleven years and working for England's SIS for the war effort during WWII. The reformed libertine now known as Luke Newman devotes himself to the missions his nephew Fred Parker, a SIS officer, assigns him to abate his loneliness. When Luke is given the task of protecting a beautiful retired spy, whose identity has been compromised, their instant connection awakens dormant feeling in Luke. Not much rattles Gillian Browning but the first time she sees the ravaged visage of the former Viscount Ravenswood she screams in shock. Once her composure is regained she finds