Laurel Bancroft has lived for years as a recluse, isolating herself from a town that has branded her a murderer. But now, convinced that people have finally forgotten, she is ready to resume her life.

Then Laurel meets Alec Stanton. Hired to help her redesign her garden, Alec is a stranger with a mysterious past. Though more than ten years younger, Alec is exactly what Laurel needs: intelligent, talented, passionate.

But as their relationship grows, so does a dangerous threat against them. Someone wants Laurel to return to her seclusion and give up her younger lover--someone who hasn't forgotten that night so many years ago.

"Full of passion, secrets, taboos and fear, Garden of Scandal will pull you in from the start as you work to unwind the treachery and experience the sizzle." --Romantic Times

"Blake's style is as steamy as a still July night on the bayou, as overwhelmingly hot as Cajun spice." --Chicago Tribune

(reissue)

MIRA Books, November 2003