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

Moments later, Will was spooning water into him, murmuring to him, and he was surprised to see his hand was not quite steady. In the moonlight Dearne’s hair looked as dark as blood and his skin pale. No expression, just that immovable sleep which rendered his features a youthful blank.


Once he had fed him the water, Will sat with Dearne in his arms and resisted the urge to press his cheek against head again. The thought Dearne might have been aware of his earlier caress struck him with some force and his heart thudded in his chest. 3


Chapter 9