When she sees him stumbling around the house, her heart goes out to him. Samantha Wickersham comes to Fairchild Park to apply for the position as Gabriel's nurse.
He has already scared off every nurse that his father hired to care for him until he finally meets his match. Refusing to be coddled, he blunders his way around the mansion, smashing everything in his path. Anger over the loss of his sight, and more importantly his independence, has turned Gabriel into a surly master who spends his days all but terrorizing his servants. Now he lives in a self-imposed exile at his family's country estate. He had gone to war to prove his worth to the only woman he'd ever loved, but she left him when he returned incapacitated, and his family treats him like an invalid. After sustaining a severe injury during a pivotal battle, he was struck blind. Gabriel Fairchild is a war hero, but he doesn't feel much like one.
Medeiros is at the top of her game with this stellar romance. Will keep you reading until the wee hours of the morning."- Historical Romance Club "Ms. "A crisp, bright tale…as finely written as Medeiros's best novels."- Publishers Weekly "Absolutely marvelous! Medeiros's writing is pure magic. As Samantha begins to let the light back into Gabriel's life and his heart, they both discover that some pleasures are best explored in the dark. Whenever she is near, he feels the stirrings of a desire he never thought he would feel again. Although he pronounces her a "tart, vinegary creature without an ounce of womanly softness about her", he is secretly intrigued by her dry sense of humor, her lack of pity, and the bold way she brooks no nonsense from him. After their first fiery confrontation, she engages the arrogant earl in a hilarious battle of both wit and wills. Prim nurse Samantha Wickersham arrives at Fairchild Park to find her new charge behaving more like a beast than a man. Abandoned by the fiancée he adored, the man who once walked like a prince among London's elite secludes himself in his family's mansion, cursing his way through dark days and darker nights. Was she an angel of mercy or the devil in disguise? Gabriel Fairchild's valor during the Battle of Trafalgar earns him the title of hero, but costs him his hope for the future.
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