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Miss Eve Venables knows nothing about the man who’s persuaded her parents to deliver her to a country church in the middle of the night, not even his name. Her parents have wisely withheld his identity knowing their daughter would hunt him down and then give the man cause to change his mind.
Four men in black hooded cloaks escort Eve up the aisle where she’s married by proxy to a man named Adam Harold Damian Latham, sixth Earl of Latham. The name Latham is familiar, but she can’t remember why. A feeling of being watched sends a chill up her spine and over her scalp. For six months invisible eyes have been following her everywhere. Is her husband the black cloaked figure who gently placed the ring on her finger or was her demon-Lord waiting in a cold castle for her to be delivered up into his bed like a ritual offering to a blood thirsty god? Her mind whirling with plot lines from The Castle of Otranto; Eve reluctantly agrees to become Lady Latham, but she’s no simpering Miss, and if His Lordship thinks he’s purchased a biddable wife he’ll quickly discover he’s mistaken.
Background to The Invisible Husband
The Invisible Husband was originially intended to be a Gothic romance. I had this idea that the heroine would be married off to some man she's never met who (in my original mental rough draft) lived in a house riddled with secret passages etc. The story sat on the computer shelf gathering dust until I gave up the Gothic nonsense and let the characters tell the story. If I’d written it as a full length novel I probably would have dragged out the beginning and thrown in a few more twists, but I think it's good as it is. I have to admit that too many dark secrets just get on my nerves as a reader so I don't know why I thought I'd write a book like that; one of my momentary lapses of idiocy. It's not a Gothic, though it is darker than most of my other stories. How could it not when the main characters are named Adam and Eve? A poisonous snake has slithered into the garden and has every intention of ruining Adam's gamble on finding love. Eve doesn't help; she can't tell when a snake is deadly or harmless. Sometimes a woman's impulse to bite that harmless looking apple can lead to paralysis of the heart.
I hope you enjoy reading The Invisible Husband as much as I enjoyed writing it!
