At the age of 13, when trespassing on woods adjacent to her family's land, Belinda Presleigh sees Richard Berrington, who has just come home from the war, swimming naked in a stream. From that moment on she can see no one but him and locks this painful love in her heart, knowing that exposure would only bring ridicule. She knows that she cannot compete with the beautiful girls to whom he is attracted. Her mother, though, having lost her eldest daughter, Roselle, to pneumonia, has hopes of regaining her lost social status through Belinda, and plots to place Richard, who has now become an earl at his father's death, in a compromising situation with Belinda, forcing him to an offer of marriage.Belinda realizes her mother's plot too late, and yet, when forced to decide her future, it is not her mother's overbearing insistence that convinces her to accept an offer of marriage she knows has been forced on the earl, but the realization that this is the only chance at happiness she will ever have, for she cannot envision a life in which she will never see Richard Branston again.Three idyllic days spent travelling with her new husband, who has softened somewhat toward her, leave Belinda totally unprepared for the violent and dangerous rejection she encounters from his family at his home, Winterhill. book trailer:youtube.com/watch?v=ttSpZt5T_T0website: authorsden.com/gloriagay

For her insulting behavior toward the Earl of Ashcom, on whom her family depends for subsistence, beautiful Fantine Delmere earns for herself an unwanted London season and is forced to leave her beloved Evergreen and venture into the hard glare of the heartless haute ton she abhors. But Fantine's arrival in London awakens jealousies and dangerous forces are put into motion... **From the Author Love In A Dangerous Season is the expanded re-written 2015 new edition of First Season (2001). As First Season, Love In A Dangerous Season received the following reviews:   "A Classic Regency with a dash of intrigue."                                      -Romantic Times Book Review "Dramatic and Endearing."                                      -WordWeaving.com "Entertaining as a glass of champagne. This happy tale fizzes in all the right places.                                      -MyShelf.com "The story was great and the plot was fascinating."                                      -Huntress Book Reviews "Will you enjoy this suspenseful Regency? You bet!"                                      -Romance Central "First Season packs a lot of action."                                     * -*Romance Reviews Today ** About the Author Gloria Gay has been an author and artist all her life. She has published half a dozen Regency romances, her latest being "Kissed In The Dark." She has also published several poems and a short story in a Romance magazine. She lives with her husband, Enrique Gay, an architect, in San Diego, California and is happy (and very lucky) to have her grown children and grandchildren living near by.