The ideal husband

(Hamelin Family #1)

He was her hero

Leah of Pecham has no choice but to return home from France to Cornwall in disgrace, to face her father's wrath and her brother's scorn. Fate takes an odd twist when a handsome, gallant stranger ensures she survives a shipwreck, and as result he suffers injuries so grievous that the doctors hold no hope of recovery for the man they assume is her husband. Unwilling to abandon Geoffrey, she arranges to take her unconscious 'husband' home to die, allowing the falsehood to stand in an attempt to help mend her tattered reputation. She prepares to live life as a respectable widow - until the day Geoffrey wakes.

She saved him from certain death

Geoffrey Hamelin remembers nothing before waking in a strange bed with a beautiful woman hovering over him - not the shipwreck that left him broken and battered, nor the woman who has tenderly nursed him. Not eve

Tropes & themes

Medieval

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