Is the enemy of her enemy a friendor a beast?\n\nLord Ashworth is scarred by a night of terror years ago that left his face in ruins and his life in shreds. He hides in Silverstone Manor, using rumors that paint him as a horrible, murdering monster to keep visitors at bay. Yet he cant shake the feeling that the rumors might be true. He tells himself its better this way. If his memories ever resurface, at least he will be the only one hurt by them.\n\nThe woman on his doorstep, however, simply refuses to fear him. Thats not only an oddity, its a threat to his secretand his heart.\n\nVivian Suttley has seen the face of evil more than once in her young life. Shes on the run from the latest, a cruel man determined to force her to marry him. Whatever the whispers about the reclusive Ashworth, surely its nothing compared to the bleak, violent future she leaves behind.\n\nAshworth saved her once before, and hes her last hope for refuge. Yet she wonders if shes truly safer at Silverstoneor if she has just made the biggest mistake of her life.
