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

Between the three of us we decided the best thing to do was to get you to safety and pretend you hadn’t turned up.


Dearne was aware he was gaping at her. “Didn’t Holbrook’s men tell him what had happened?”


“I don’t know. Holbrook never said a word. Bolton and I managed to get you to Denton and you know the rest. It came as something of a shock to discover the house had been sold.”


“Lady Araminta didn’t know?” Will said.


Miss Rose shook her head. “No. She was surprised, because Captain Dearne had told her he would leave the house to her should anything happen to him whilst he was fighting on the Continent.”


Dearne’s head pounded. “That’s true. I did speak to her. I told her I had made a will after grandmother died and left me the house. I wanted Minty to have it so she could leave Holbrook House.” Dearne rubbed his temple. “I saw to it when I was on leave.”


“That is how Lady Araminta recalls it.”


Chapter 47