Wedding the widow

Elizabeth Easton is a widow at Lyttlefield Park, and of all the widows there she looks the least likely to marry again. Several gentlemen would like to know her better, but she stays loyal to the memory of her late husband.

Then a harvest festival catches her off guard. She gives in to desire and spends an intense interlude with Jemmy, Lord Brack, a handsome man who has just come through years of war. Elizabeth is shocked at herself.

Jemmy had meant to put off marriage and enjoy himself without obligations. Elizabeth changes his mind. He asks for her hand, and she refuses to consider it, even though the attraction between them is plain on both sides.

Scandal is closing in, and both families are firmly against a match. Jemmy has to find a way to persuade a cautious woman to trust him with her heart and to make that one notorious night the start of a life together.

This is a historical romance built around a second-chance-at-love dynamic, a reluctant widow and a determined suitor, with a slow-to-trust heroine and a hero who has to earn her.