A Reedsy Discovery 5-star "Must Read"!

"Once I started this book, I could not put it down." -- Kelsey Cashman, Reedsy Discovery

He is a stern and brooding soldier who is used to giving orders.
She is a passionate artist who rarely does as she’s told.
His haunted past and secret shame stand like a wall between them in this hot and steamy Regency romance.

Lord Richard Winter has returned from the continent a war hero. Richard stands like a mountain of muscle and strength, but he is a guarded man who takes comfort in adhering to his own set of rules. It seems there is nothing that can break down his defences until a rather brazen and curvaceous young lady chooses to give him a dressing down in public.

At the age of twenty-seven, and without even one proposal of marriage to her name, Patience Pemberton is quite fed up with the social scene. Her natural inclination is to laugh too loudly and to speak without thinking. Unfortunately, her mouth has run off with itself again, and she finds herself yelling into the face of a rather large and forbidding stranger who just so happens to be the new viscount!

While Patience herself is initially enraged by Lord Winter, she finds his face most extraordinary. As a portrait artist, she is accustomed to looking closely at a person’s face, and what she sees in Richard Winter’s intrigues her: he is haunted, he is furious, and he has a death wish.

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