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

Dearne pushed his kippers about his breakfast plate and watched as Will devoured his. Normally he loved kippers but today they made his stomach queasy. His head was still pounding, and for some reason his leg had set up an agonising throb again, just to add to his misery. Araminta was breakfasting in bed, but before long Gussy joined them. After the pleasantries had passed Dearne put his knife down and rubbed at a grease spot on the linen.


“Was Holbrook at the memorial service?”


Gussy dabbed at his mouth with his napkin and swallowed the enormous mouthful of sausages. “I believe so.” He nodded, swallowed some more and continued. “He was devastated at the news you had perished. We all were. Couldn’t think of a world without you in it.” He swallowed again and looked at his plate.


Dearne blinked. That was either terribly moving, or he was doing it a bit too brown. “Nice to know you’d all miss me.”


Gussy’s eyebrows went up. “Of course we would.”


Chapter 51