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Long out of print - the first book by award winning author Mary KingsleyShe was trapped by a lie - and her love for a dashing duke.All Sabrina wanted when she traveled to Bainbridge Abbey was to find her lost family. She didn't expect the kindly old duke of her imaginings to be Oliver Carrick, young, handsome--and extremely mistrustful of her. Though Sabrina is not a fortune hunter, she knows that he is right to be suspicious. For she has a secret in her past, and she prays that Oliver will never find out.Oliver has no intention of being tricked into marriage by an apparent fortune hunter, no matter how beautiful she might be. He is content with his life, his mistress and his work for the government. But he is soon drawn in by Sabrina's sweetness and beauty.As their love deepens, as Sabrina becomes more and more enmeshed in a web of deception, she faces a terrible dilemma: what will happen if her secret becomes known?