Mercedes

As the eldest daughter of the Earl of Cottesmore, Lady Mercedes Stanhope didn’t expect to be still without a husband at the start of her third season. And neither did she expect to be the target of a kidnapping attempt on her journey home from Scotland.
But most of all, she didn’t expect to experience such an emotional connection to the man who came to her rescue…

Horrifically scarred after a bayonet wound nearly cost him his life, Nathaniel Harding lived for fifteen years in the shadows.