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

“A few years after you disappeared, Arthur got drunk. I made him talk to me about how he had been ‘helping’ you to turn away from…” He gestured with one hand. “He broke down. Told me everything you had told me was true. He told me…he told me…Oh, my dearest, dearest boy I am so sorry. So very, very sorry.”


Will was speechless. Of all the things he had thought his father might say, this was not it.


“Don’t say anything, you don’t have to say anything at all,” his father said, getting up to stand in front of him. His eyes were wild with what looked like grief, and shining with tears. Will couldn’t look away.


“You look incredibly well,” his father said, swiping at his eyes with one hand. “So well. So handsome. Tell me what you have been doing?”


Will was so startled he did as he was told. He told his father about his life, his struggles to make a living honestly, and his father listened. Actually listened to him.


Chapter 81