Robert
Blake, Duke of Lear, is a man of intense emotions
who loves deeply and protects fiercely. Devastated
and wracked with guilt by the death of his younger
brother, Stefan, in the Peninsular War, he readily
agrees to aid Jane Chandler to bring her seriously
wounded brother back from Portugal. Much against Jane’s
wishes, he decides to accompany her and together they
embark on the hazardous mission to retrieve the young
soldier. However, the journey holds many revelations,
not least of all the abiding friendship and growing
love between the two travelers. That special love
is put severely to the test by the treachery that
awaits them upon their return to England, when a tenant
of Jane’s former home invades their lives, maliciously
creating jealousy and misunderstandings for his own
nefarious reasons. Can their friendship and love conquer
the emotions that threaten to tear them asunder?
