The Muse of Milan: A Regency Love Triangle of Secrets, Scandal, and Redemption
Apr 2026 · Dangerous Matches Book 2 · Beverley Eikli
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London, 1819.
Adelaide, Lady Leeson, lives behind a beautifully polished lie.
Her husband, Tristan, is everything society admires: honourable, self-controlled, a reforming MP with an unshakable sense of duty. He treats Adelaide with tender care, believing her fragile ever since she fled Brussels after the Duchess of Richmond’s ball on 15 June 1815—the glittering night before Quatre Bras.
Adelaide has let him believe it.
Because her mother insists upon the deception.
Because the truth would shatter the life Tristan thinks he is protecting.
And because the cruelest sorrow of her marriage is that she does not want a guardian. She wants a husband.
She longs for Tristan with a passion she has been taught to fear. For desire is dangerous, and a woman’s surrender a kind of ruin.
Then James returns.
Once a reckless, half-drowned youth Tristan saved from death, James is now a celebrated poet whose scandalous verses have set London ablaze. Society is desperate to discover the woman who inspired them.
James plays on their anticipation.
He has found his muse again—and she is wearing his dearest friend’s ring.
As old loyalties fray and buried truths press closer to the light, Adelaide is caught between the safety of silence and the peril of honesty. But when longing, guilt, and obsession collide, she must decide whether to remain the delicate wife the world expects... or risk everything for the truth that could finally set her free.
A lush, emotionally charged Regency romance of passion, restraint, betrayal, and redemption—with a hard-won hopeful ending.
Previously published as The Maid of Milan, a UK Festival of Romance Top Ten Reads selection.
Here's what the readers say:
"My goodness, this was an intense and highly emotional book!" ~ Kindle Reader
"I think this was possibly the most gripping second chances story I have read this year!
What happens in Tristan and Addy's romance had me going through a whole range of emotions as I read deep into the night and again today until I finished." ~ Kindle Reader
"An intriguing story ... with lots of twists and turns and surprises.” ~ Kindle Reader
"Wonderful characters and a really fabulous story which I just have to recommend!" ~ Kindle Reader
"I just finished reading this novel (second in the series) and I’m sorry it’s finished!! Incredible story! Great characters! Lives interwoven, some a tangled mess! Love, lies, betrayal, even a murder! This story has it all!! And when it looks like all lives have been destroyed, you won’t believe the ending!" ~ Kindle reader
Adelaide, Lady Leeson, lives behind a beautifully polished lie.
Her husband, Tristan, is everything society admires: honourable, self-controlled, a reforming MP with an unshakable sense of duty. He treats Adelaide with tender care, believing her fragile ever since she fled Brussels after the Duchess of Richmond’s ball on 15 June 1815—the glittering night before Quatre Bras.
Adelaide has let him believe it.
Because her mother insists upon the deception.
Because the truth would shatter the life Tristan thinks he is protecting.
And because the cruelest sorrow of her marriage is that she does not want a guardian. She wants a husband.
She longs for Tristan with a passion she has been taught to fear. For desire is dangerous, and a woman’s surrender a kind of ruin.
Then James returns.
Once a reckless, half-drowned youth Tristan saved from death, James is now a celebrated poet whose scandalous verses have set London ablaze. Society is desperate to discover the woman who inspired them.
James plays on their anticipation.
He has found his muse again—and she is wearing his dearest friend’s ring.
As old loyalties fray and buried truths press closer to the light, Adelaide is caught between the safety of silence and the peril of honesty. But when longing, guilt, and obsession collide, she must decide whether to remain the delicate wife the world expects... or risk everything for the truth that could finally set her free.
A lush, emotionally charged Regency romance of passion, restraint, betrayal, and redemption—with a hard-won hopeful ending.
Previously published as The Maid of Milan, a UK Festival of Romance Top Ten Reads selection.
Here's what the readers say:
"My goodness, this was an intense and highly emotional book!" ~ Kindle Reader
"I think this was possibly the most gripping second chances story I have read this year!
What happens in Tristan and Addy's romance had me going through a whole range of emotions as I read deep into the night and again today until I finished." ~ Kindle Reader
"An intriguing story ... with lots of twists and turns and surprises.” ~ Kindle Reader
"Wonderful characters and a really fabulous story which I just have to recommend!" ~ Kindle Reader
"I just finished reading this novel (second in the series) and I’m sorry it’s finished!! Incredible story! Great characters! Lives interwoven, some a tangled mess! Love, lies, betrayal, even a murder! This story has it all!! And when it looks like all lives have been destroyed, you won’t believe the ending!" ~ Kindle reader
London, 1819.
Adelaide, Lady Leeson, lives behind a beautifully polished lie.
Her husband, Tristan, is everything society admires: honourable, self-controlled, a reforming MP with an unshakable sense of duty. He treats Adelaide with tender care, believing her fragile ever since she fled Brussels ...
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About the author
Beverley Oakley is an Australian author who grew up in the African mountain kingdom of Lesotho, married a Norwegian bush pilot she met in Botswana's Okavango Delta, and started writing historical romances to amuse herself in the 12 countries she's lived as a 'trailing spouse' (in between working as an airborne geophysical survey operator, a teacher of English as a Second Language, and writing for her former newspaper, Adelaide's The Advertiser). Her first book in the Scandalous Miss Brightwell series - Rake's Honour - was nominated Best Historical Romance by the Australian Romance Readers Association. She is also the author of the popular Daughters of Sin series, a Regency-era 'Dynasty-style' family saga laced with intrigue. Under her real name Beverley Eikli, she writes Africa-set romantic suspense, and psychological historical romances. The Reluctant Bride won Choc-Lit's Search for an Australian Star competition and her Regency tale of redemption The Maid of Milan was shortlisted in the Top Ten Reads of 2014 at the UK Festival of Romance. Beverley lives north of Melbourne (overlooking a fabulous Gothic lunatic asylum) with the same gorgeous Norwegian husband, two daughters and a rambunctious Rhodesian Ridgeback. You can read more at www.beverleyoakley.com.
Beverley Oakley is an Australian author who grew up in the African mountain kingdom of Lesotho, married a Norwegian bush pilot she met in Botswana's Okavango Delta, and started writing historical romances to amuse herself in the 12 countries she's lived as a 'trailing spouse' (in between working ...
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