A slow-burn Regency romance of grief, loyalty, and forbidden longing.
Lady Verity Harleigh had a perfect marriage, brief, brilliant, and gone too soon. Widowed young, she has spent two years wrapped in memory and duty, determined to honour the man she lost by never risking her heart again.

But the past is not as distant as she believes.

Adrian Blackmoor was there the night her husband died. He carried the final moments, the final words… and the weight of surviving when another did not. Bound by loyalty and haunted by memory, he has spent years in the shadows of war, until duty, and circumstance, bring him back to England.

And he meets his friends widow...

In the quiet drawing rooms of London and beneath the watchful eyes of society, their paths cross, but nothing about their connection is simple. Every glance is a betrayal. Every conversation walks a dangerous line between honour and desire.

He should keep his distance.
She should turn away.

But some promises are impossible to keep… and some feelings refuse to be buried.
He survived the mission.
Now he must face the woman who lost everything.

As past and present collide, Verity must decide:
remain faithful to a love she has lost… or risk everything for a man she was never meant to want.