The Mastro Couture Label started in Sydney in 1986, specialising in bridal and formal wear. This is a unique opportunity to experience the synthesis within the contrast of Silk and Steel. Is it art or is it wearable? Each piece is an explosion of emotion and provokes the viewer to reflect into their own life experience and question personal beliefs and values. The work is slow, intricate, and layered. He works quickly, changing and adjusting the construction to achieve the desired result. His approach is intuitive mainly concerned with essential form and movement. Unfortunately, Martin's (Dangerous Passions) story line suffers from lightly sketched period atmosphere and heavy sentimentalism.Gabriele often works with steel. Gradually, Lucien softens and accepts her vocation, and she learns to understand his needs. Stubborn Lucien can't fight his attraction to Kathryn, and despite his reservations, he agrees to marry her to thwart her uncle. Kathryn has a passion for medicine-an unorthodox pastime for a Georgian lady-and likes nothing better than analyzing cadavers and mixing potions. Fate enters Lucian's life in the form of Kathryn Grayson, a lively, intelligent runaway from a madhouse where her uncle committed her so he could spend her considerable fortune.

Lucien wants to create a life different from his parents': his mother, a spirited woman, ran off with another man, and his father died by his own hand. Can this maddening woman who is now his bride melt his heart of steel? Or will her silken touch only strengthen his vow never to fall prey to the dangers of love?Īn 18th-century hero, Lucien Raphael Montaine, fifth Marquess of Litchfield, wants to marry an affable woman to have his children, grace his table and not challenge him in any way. Though their battle of wills grows stronger every day, desire threatens to overpower his fury. Though captivated by her intellect, strong will, and beauty, he will never love the woman who has deceived him. The moment Lucien encounters the ragged, hungry waif with the dignity of a queen, he fights against wanting her. Desperate to save herself, she attempts to seduce him and forces him into marriage. Yet Kathryn's instincts tell her Lord Litchfield is a man of honor-and her only salvation.

Her only escape is to stow away in the carriage of Lucien Montaine, Marquess of Litchfield, who hears her story with disbelief and suspicion. Lady Kathryn Grayson is a gently bred noblewoman with a privileged future ahead of her.until her greedy uncle decides to steal her fortune by committing her to an insane asylum. From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Kat Martin comes a reprint of her beloved historical romance, Silk and Steel

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