In the rainy, sunless summer of 1816, brooding war hero Adam Douglas, Duke of Blackdale, falls hard for Lady Cora Winfield, a shy earl's daughter with a passion for horticulture. When her formidable mother refuses his suit, Adam does something unforgivable—he abducts Cora and flees toward Scotland. But over days of floods, wrecks, and near-death, kidnapper and captive discover an unlikely tenderness. A clean Regency romance about honor, healing from a brutal past, and choosing love freely. A brooding Waterloo hero so desperate for love he does the unthinkable—then must earn forgiveness mile by mile. Set during the eerie 'Year Without a Summer,' where the weather itself seems to rage against the lovers. A heroine who saves the hero—digging him out of a mudslide with her bare hands—not the other way around. A clean romance that tackles consent, autonomy, and breaking cycles of abuse head-on. “You cannot offer what is not yours to give. You cannot take, and you cannot pass around. My hand is mine. My heart is mine. I will only marry where I will.”Perfect for a reader who loves brooding-hero Regency romances in the vein of clean/sweet historical fiction—closed-door heat, high emotional stakes, and a heroine with a quirky passion.
