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 felt the bed sag as Will sat beside him so he removed his hands and blinked up at him. Will was frowning. Those dark eyes were troubled. He had the most interesting eyes. Sometimes it was so easy to read his emotions in them, sometimes he was a blank mask. At the moment, he was clearly concerned.


“Why don’t we try and go through day by day what you remember and work out where your gaps are. Write everything down and that might jog something, or nudge something back? I think your gaps are bigger than you think. Waterloo was weeks ago.”


Dearne heaved himself into a sitting position and scratched his head. “I don’t suppose it would hurt.”


Chapter 50