Pariah

After selling his major’s commission in the Dragoons, Lord Roman Vanderbilt wants nothing more than a sedate life in the country, acting as steward over his brother’s estate. If seventeen years in the military had not been enough, the vast casualties suffered by his men at Waterloo certainly made his decision clear. But leave it to Miss Bethanne Shelton, the generally shunned, enticingly pixie-ish caregiver to both the village’s senile old biddy and a rambunctious young boy, to forcefully remove all hopes of a quiet life from his mind. Timid and yet brave, secretive and yet loving, Bethanne presents Roman with a series of contradictions he can only hope to solve before he loses her to another.

Available late 2011.