A recluse. A shambles. A lady's only hope?
Solitude, silence, and accommodating servants: Richard Tresham has all he needs to heal after a harrowing tour of duty and his subsequent collapse. What he does not need is a wife, and certainly not one as relentlessly charming as his neighbour Lady Virginia, the Baroness of Hartbury. But ignoring a lady's calling cards is much easier than ignoring the lady herself, when she turns to Richard for protection from an enemy he knows all too well.
Through pride and circumstance, Lady Virginia Denton has never met her reclusive neighbour, their families at odds for generations. Yet when threatened by the man who ruined her mother and tore her world apart, Virginia discovers in the taciturn Mr Tresham an enduring strength, a sensuous passion, and a secret that will lay her enemy's plans to waste.
If only they can survive.
An adventurous Victorian romance set on the banks of the River Wye, featuring a lady, a liar, and...