Let the games begin ...
Lizzie Wakefield used to play with Oliver Heywood in the meadows near the village when they were but children. The two shared an easy intimacy, yet as they grew up they grew apart. For Oliver was no ordinary lad, but the young Lord Heywood – sent away to become a man, while Lizzie remained on in the small village of Uxbury.
But when Lizzie takes a job as a maid in Heywood Hall shortly after her eighteenth birthday, she hears gossip that Lord Oliver is returning home again from his Grand Tour of Europe.
Lizzie wonders if he will remember their innocent childish play together; but the poor maid is soon to discover that Lord Oliver Heywood has much darker and more devilish games on his mind ...
Due to adult descriptions and situations, this novel is suitable only for those aged eighteen and older.
