Tender Conquest

by Lisa Bingham

INNOCENT SEDUCTION

When prim, proper Esther Miles took over the Benton House Orphanage, she thought she'd be healing the most innocent casualties of the recent war. But the bruised and broken body of a roguish drifter dumped on her doorstep reduced her life to chaos. The very presence of the all-too-virile Donovan Reed with his outrageous charm threatened to corrupt both the children ... and Essie.

As stolen kisses awakened passions Essie never knew existed, she defied the scandalmongers to keep Donovan by her side. But not even their love had the power to thwart a dangerous enemy who wanted nothing less than their lives ...

345 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 1989

About the author

Lisa Bingham was thirteen when she decided she wanted to be a published author, and she reached that goal less than ten years later. Now Lisa is the bestselling author of more than thirty historical and contemporary romantic fiction novels. Lisa has also been a teacher and a professional theatrical and historical reenactment costume designer—she’s considered an expert in those fields. She has been lucky enough to live and study in such exotic locales as Brazil, Mexico, Europe, and the United Kingdom. Currently she lives in rural northern Utah near her husband’s fourth-generation family farm. She is married to her sweetheart of twenty-two years and has three beautiful children, an over-protective dog, a burr-laden cat, and a miniature goat who thinks she’s a puppy.