The past will find a way to haunt you. Unrepentant rogue,
Giles Wexham, Earl of Daventry, wrings pleasure from every
moment and likes his carefree life exactly as it is. During
his summer retreat to the country, he becomes reluctant host
and nursemaid to his former betrothed, a woman he’d thought
long dead, a woman Giles had mistaken for a ghost while he’d
found pleasure in another woman’s arms.
Unbearable pain and laudanum has kept Lillian Winter apart
from society since the accident that ruined her life. She’s
endured six years of agony at the hands of incompetent
practitioners and longs for an end to her suffering. Finding
herself in the Earl of Daventry’s care brings surprising
relief from her injuries, and a longing for the life denied
her. Yet as new-found pleasures lower Lilly’s resistance to
the wicked earl, a long-forgotten danger returns to stalk her.