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

Augustus went even redder. “It was. I thought I was going to die.”


Augustus just shook his head. “You don’t want to know.”


Dearne sighed. “Well for God’s sake let this be a lesson and stay away from the damned tables. Do we still need to talk? Do you owe any more?”


Augustus hesitated, but shook his head. “It’s all done now. All done.”


Dawn was breaking when Will’s door opened and Dearne came in. He was dressed in his nightshirt, as usual, hair all over the place.


“What are you doing?” Will whispered.


Will shifted and held the covers back. “Don’t you think we had close enough shave earlier?”


“I’ve locked the door. Holbrook won’t be back.” Dearne got into the bed and flopped over Will in his customary position with a huge sigh. “That’s better,” he murmured and wrapped himself around.


Will hesitated a moment, and then held him tightly and kissed his hair and breathed him in.


Chapter 79