Elspeth Graham, Duchess of Donaldoon, dreams of a beautiful life after the death of her best friend and husband.
Despite the sufferings of his illness, she adored their life together! At her husband’s urging, she has promised to live on with fun and joy.
After years spent nursing the duke, Elspeth does not even know how to begin.
Oh, she knows how to be feisty enough, every good Scottish lass does, but it hasn’t been easy.
And giving in to joy feels difficult, given the circumstances.
But one day on her brother’s estate in Scotland, she meets an Englishman who might just hold the key...
Elspeth Graham, Duchess of Donaldoon, dreams of a beautiful life after the death of her best friend and husband.
Despite the sufferings of his illness, she adored their life together! At her husband’s urging, she has promised to live on with fun and joy.
After years spent nursing the duke, Elspeth does not even know how to begin.
Oh, she knows how to be feisty enough, every good Scottish lass does, but it hasn’t been easy.
And giving in to joy feels difficult, given the circumstances.
But one day on her brother’s estate in Scotland, she meets an Englishman who might just hold the key to her healing and how to begin again.
Lord Octavian Newfield, second son of the Earl of Drexel and Hermia Briarwood, is a military man who has seen the darkest days on battlefields all over the Continent.
He also knows how to laugh at life and mock the darkness before it can claim him! No morose fellow is he.
So, when a fellow officer and laird invites him and his rather large family to get away to the Highlands to revel in the glories of life, he cannot refuse.
But once in those glens, instead of merry antics, he finds the temptation of a beautiful woman and her wounded heart.
Still, Octavian cannot give in to love.
His life is war.
Death lurks on every battlefield.
And he will never chance leaving a woman he loves behind.
Not even if that woman causes him to dare to hope for a future free from war.
