Unholy Wedlock Beautiful Patricia Stuart-Brice had dreamed of wearing her family's fabled Black Pearl necklace at her wedding. But now the necklace loomed in her imagination like a nightmare noose. Patricia's father had given her in marriage to a man Patricia had never met but knew of all too well. A man whose noble name could not silence the scandal of his loose living and wanton womanizing. A man returned to England to claim his birthright after years of exile in an exotic land. A man who welcomed Patricia to Gresham Castle with a mocking smile and hungering gaze. From her first moment face to face with her future husband, Patricia felt fear—but no fear could equal the full terror of the truth…