Description:Her family has a death wish. For her.
Lord
Marcus Waring married Corinna Houghton with the best of intentions—to
protect her should anything happen to her brother while both he and
Marcus are serving in India. That the child bride is underage is but a
small footnote in his family’s long history of scandal.
News that
his wife has died in a carriage accident stabs him with regret, but
with no reason to question the report, he extends his stay until another
near-scandal brings him home—eight years after his secret marriage.
Corinna
is in hiding. Alone in the world after her parents’ deaths, despised by
her family, unwanted even by the husband who seems to have forgotten
her. When she discovers her temporary governess position is in the home
of Marcus’s brother, she holds out a secret hope that she will at last
learn his whereabouts.
When wife and erstwhile husband meet
again, it is as strangers. Gentle, fragile sparks of attraction and
trust flicker to life, but their respective dark histories threaten to
overshadow any possibility of happiness. Especially when it becomes
clear that someone in her family still wishes her dead.