IN HIS SINS
Beaufort Lancaster has always known himself to be a sinner. A man of no intentions for marriage, a lover of the thrill that comes with women bound to duty—especially those who belong to other men. But what was once a game of indulgence shifts dangerously when he meets Lady Louisa Whitmore, his brother’s wife.
Andrew Lancaster is mad. Not in the way men are described as eccentric or temperamental, but truly lost to the grip of madness. His marriage to Louisa is a hollow arrangement, void of warmth or desire. Yet, bound by duty and title, she remains.
Beaufort never thought himself capable of true love—until her. What begins as a fascination, a mere attraction to another married woman, transforms into something unbearable. He thinks about her more than he should. He watches her more closely than is right. And the breaking point comes when he finds himself in her room one fateful evening. A kiss. A touch. Nothing more. But it is enough to undo him.
Wracked with guilt and the weight of his transgression, Beaufort flees Lancaster and heads to London, seeking refuge in the arms of God. Priesthood, he believes, will cleanse him. Will rid him of her. Yet, even within the monastery, the ghost of Lady Louisa haunts him, her scent, her touch, the whisper of her name lingering in the quiet halls of his solitude.
At the very moment he is to take his final vows, he falters. The cloth cannot silence the call of his heart. He leaves the priesthood, knowing that no salvation could ever rewrite the sin he willingly embraced. But what now? The world awaits him, yet his greatest desire belongs to another. Can love ever be anything but ruin?
In His Sins is a tale of forbidden love, guilt, and the haunting grip of desire, set against the rigid moralities of the Victorian era