Passion
During her second year of mourning, young widow Passion Elizabeth Dare never expected to feel desire again. After a loveless, restrained marriage, a chance encounter with a handsome stranger at London's Crystal Palace awakens her long-suppressed longing—and sparks an intense, anonymous affair. Her lover is Mark Randolph Hawkmore, Earl of Langley, intoxicated by the mysterious beauty he cannot forget.
As their secret rendezvous deepen into a rare and powerful bond, a blackmail scheme against the Earl threatens to expose them both and destroy everything they have found. With scandal brewing, each must choose between duty and desire. The first book in Lisa Valdez's Passion Quartet, set in Victorian London.
Yes. Passion (2005) is the first book in Lisa Valdez's Passion Quartet, followed by Patience (2010), which follows Mark's half-brother Matthew. A third book, Primrose, was announced but has not been published, and a fourth was never released.