She can't trust anyone.

Yet to survive she has to trust him!

When widow Hetta Champion and her little boy are endangered by her father's hunt for a murderer, aristocrat Magnus Haile is compelled to assist! Hetta's unhappy marriage has left her just as wary of people as Magnus, but on their adventure in England's stunning south coast she feels her guard begin to slip. Could she offer Magnus the family he's long believed impossible...?

Elizabeth Beacon has a passion for history and storytelling and, with the English West Country on her doorstep, never lacks a glorious setting for her books. Elizabeth tried horticulture, higher education as a mature student, briefly taught English and worked in an office, before finally turning her daydreams about dashing, piratical heroes and their stubborn and independent heroines into her dream job; writing Regency romances for Harlequin, Mills and Boon