Resisting Romeo

A second chance at happiness...After years of trying to escape a relationship with a controlling duke, actress and aspiring playwright Claudine Bellerose is free and ready to return to center stage. The small London playhouse where she is about to premiere her first production cannot compare to the glory of Drury Lane, but she is surrounded by friends, which makes the Drayton the perfect place to begin rebuilding her life-until she learns the theatre is being sold out from under the manager.A dream he never hoped to realize...When gentleman landowner Russell Hawke inherits a failing playhouse, the only reasonable action is to sell the property to the highest bidder. However, after the intriguing Claudine ambushes him at the Clarendon Hotel and demands he let the manager purchase the Drayton, Russell is enticed into reconsidering the theatre's future. Soon he finds himself portraying the role of leading man opposite the lovely Claudine, but can he become her Romeo after the curtains close?