Emma V. Leech

The devil owes her a debt — and his heart.
A fierce, emotional Victorian romance from Best Selling Author Emma V Leech
Lady Kathleen de Beauvoir has never quite known where she belongs. Adopted at birth by loving parents, she has a brilliant scientist for a father, a whirlwind of a mother with Bedwin blood in her veins, and an older brother who drives her mad. Yet Kathy herself fits nowhere. She’s too outspoken for the ton, too impulsive for polite society, and far too aware that some whisper about her mysterious origins. Criminal blood, they say. Tainted lineage.

Her first season is bound to be ghastly.

Enter the Earl of Vane — devil, degenerate, and newly risen from the dead.

Vane has earned every vile rumour attached to his name. Selfish, cruel, and spectacularly debauched, he spent years drowning himself in vice… until someone decided to put an end to him. Left bleeding in a filthy alley, he should have died. Instead, a quirk of fate — and the care of a sharp‑tongued girl he barely remembers — gave him a second chance.

Now he’s determined to atone.
Or at least, to try.

When Kathy recognises the man she once helped drag back from death’s door, she calls in the debt he owes. Vane is funding a school to make amends for his sins, and Kathy throws herself into the project with fierce purpose. She knows exactly what kind of man he was — he confessed as much in his fevered delirium — and she refuses to believe a devil can truly change.

But the devil remembers her.

As Vane’s memories return, so does the sharp sting of Kathy’s honesty… and the unsettling warmth she sparked in him even then. He wants to be worthy of her. He wants a future he has no right to claim. But redemption is a treacherous path, and Vane’s past is not done with him yet.

Kathy may be the only woman brave enough to dare the devil.
The question is whether he can become the man she deserves before his sins drag them both under.