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

“Asylum?” he repeated. “Cured?”


Will kept his gaze resolutely on his plate and resumed eating. When he had swallowed, he replied. “Yes.”


“Will, I…what…is a cure even possible?”


“No. Don’t ask me what they did to me in there because I can’t talk about it.”


Dearne was filled with the need to take Will into his arms and hold him tight but he could do nothing in the middle of the bar. He couldn’t even touch him, or hold his hand. He picked up his spoon and then put it down again.


“How old were you when you were sent down from Oxford?” Dearne asked the question gently.


Dearne didn’t ask the question burning in his chest. Instead he applied himself to the food and Will did the same.


Chapter 32