Will Marsden is a man on the run from his memories and his past. Steward of Denton Manor was a good position until Captain Dearne, the owner, lost the manor on the turn of a card. When the feckless Dearne is dumped unconscious and near death on his doorstep, Will grudgingly accepts an enormous sum of money to care for him.<br><br>Dearne regains consciousness but has no memories of how he came to be in the bed of a dark-haired, angry, but gorgeous man or how he came to be so badly injured.<br><br>When nightmares drive Dearne into Will’s arms every night, the attraction between them explodes. As Dearne battles with lost memories, he is forced to accept the fact that someone in his family wants him dead, and Will is forced to confront his past head on. Will the revelations uncovered manage to tear them apart?

Memories

He started by pulling off the man’s boots and dropping them onto the tarpaulin covered floor with a grimace. They had no doubt once been terribly expensive but they were soaked in mud and filth. He dragged off the stockings to reveal wet, wrinkled feet that were oddly pale. The man’s breeches were torn, covered in mud and blood, so he quickly undid the buttons and then pulled them off, revealing slender, muscular legs lightly dusted with hair that, in the firelight, had an auburn cast. He hesitated a moment and then briskly stripped him of his soaking, filthy smalls. Grimacing, he held them at arm’s length between finger and thumb and dropped them onto the stone floor.


Chapter 6