![]() ![]() The alluring, strong-willed Patience soon captures Busick’s attention and throws off his focus from recovering from his war injuries and sorting through Colin’s tangled finances. Knowing that Busick, whom she has never met, won’t trust her with Lionel thanks to her tarnished reputation, she accepts a job as Lionel’s nanny, hatching a foolhardy plan to claim her trust documents and whisk her son to the South American Guianas as soon as possible. Driven by love for her son, Patience escapes the confines of Bedlam in disguise. But Colin’s other cousin, Busick Strathmore, the dashing Duke of Repington, thwarts his plan by taking guardianship of Lionel. Colin’s villainous, money-grubbing cousin, Markham, sees an opportunity to enrich himself by raising Colin’s heir and has Patience institutionalized, claiming she’s a danger to herself and her child. Patience Jordan, a West Indian heiress, is separated from her infant son, Lionel, following the suicide of her British husband, Colin. ![]() Romance burns slow and hot between a rakish war hero and a determined widow in this bewitching Regency series opener from Riley ( The Bashful Bride). ![]()
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