The Tears of Venus

Evelyn "Eve" Hawthorne has everything she is supposed to want... except a life that feels like her own.Eve knows exactly what people see: the Hawthorne name, the fortune behind it, and a life that can be negotiated over champagne. With Hawthorne Industries' most ambitious development on the horizon, the suitors circling her grow relentless. Every gala is a performance. Every introduction is calculated. Every eligible man seems less interested in her than in the empire attached to her. One man skips the performance entirely.He appears with a pearl necklace and disappears without it, leaving Eve with more than a gift. What begins as a mystery becomes something much harder to ignore: she finds laughter in places that used to feel suffocating, tenderness beneath his easy confidence, and the strange intimacy of learning someone piece by piece.For the first time, the life ahead doesn't feel like something being arranged around her. It feels like something she might choose for herself.But when desire collides with legacy, Eve must balance her future, her father's expectations, and the man who makes her feel like more than a Hawthorne.Even if he has a fondness for other people's property.

Pages: 378, Paperback, Scrambled Ink