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 experienced a moment of panic whilst he fumbled his way through the nightshirt to his groin and the relief at finding himself intact was considerable. He lay panting, but then his whole body seized as a memory claimed him at precisely the same moment his memory chose to walk through the door. His attention was on the cup he was carrying so Dearne had a moment to study the man. Not too tall, overlong, shaggy black hair that curled about a face with sharply defined cheekbones, and broad shoulders on an otherwise slender frame.


When Will looked up, Dearne stared into dark brown eyes, so dark they looked black. Will jumped and almost dropped the cup but then snapped his mouth shut, the mouth Dearne could recall kissing with alarming clarity. When the dark brows rammed down low into a ferocious scowl, Dearne’s heart sank. Christ, what had he done? A beating now might just finish him off.


Chapter 10