She wants to negotiate a comfortable marriage; he wants her in his bed
Mia Redepenning arrives in Cape Town to nurse her husband's dying mistress and adopt his children. Jules Redepenning finds his long abandoned child bride has grown up since he married her to protect her seven long years ago.
Each falls in love with the other, but will that be enough when their duties part them, and enemies threaten?
Naval captain Jules Redepenning has spent his adult life away from England, and at war. He rarely thinks of the bride he married for her own protection, and if he does, he remembers the child he left after their wedding seven years ago. He doesn’t expect to find her in his Cape Town home, a woman grown and a lovely one, too.
Mia Redepenning sails to Cape Town to nurse her husband’s dying mistress and adopt his children. She hopes to negotiate a comfortable married life with the man while she’s there. Falling in love is not on her to-do list.
Before they can do more than glimpse a possible future together, their duties force them apart. At home in England, Mia must fight for the safety of Jules’s children. Imprisoned in France, Jules must battle for his self-respect and his life.
Only by vanquishing their foes can they start to make their dreams come true.
See first chapters here.
