She believed her past was dead and buried….she was wrong.
The eccentric Jason Claymere, Marquis of Ravensworth, is looking for a wife. Since he’s not particularly interested in love, any wife should do. But the innocents, frightened young fillies that they are, cringe at his scarred countenance and widows simply cannot be trusted. Hardened from the years spent in war, he has no real use for society’s strictures.
Emily Smith, a young American widow, leaves heartache and battered memories behind and travels to England in search of her mother and maternal family. What she finds is danger and a handsome marquis who saves her life. However handsome Jason is, Emily will never trust another man, nor will she ever remarry. To be at the mercy of any man ever again is unacceptable.
While these two waltz around pride and deeply imbedded fears, an ocean away, a monster lurks, raging and searching for what is his as he plots revenge. Jason and Emily must learn to trust the other and in their new budding love before her terror-filled past rips them apart forever.
