Worth Saving

“Become the sort of man worth saving.”

A girl with a bow and a rescued boy carry those words between them for a lifetime — though neither could have known what they would one day cost.

When Amelia Spencer arrives at a chapel in the grip of a cold and desperate evening, she is not there for romance. Her parents are dead — killed, she believes, by her uncle Henry's hunger for an inheritance that should have passed to her infant brother John. With everything crumbling around her and a villain with perfect manners closing in, Amelia needs one thing: a powerful name to stand between her brother and the man who wants him.

She expects the Earl of Blakefield.

She gets Andrew Blake — grieving his own losses, new to a title he never sought, and far too honorable to walk away from a woman alone with a child and no other choice.

Their marriage is practical. Sensible. Entirely without feeling on either side — or so they tell themselves as the weeks pass, as danger deepens, as Andrew proves unexpectedly steady in every crisis and Amelia proves unexpectedly impossible to stop seeing. What begins as legal protection becomes something neither planned: a household, a shared purpose, and a man who looks at Amelia not as a burden accepted in honor but as a woman he is no longer willing to imagine losing.

But Henry Spencer has not finished.

As his schemes shift from drawing rooms and lawyers to something far more dangerous, Andrew and Amelia must find out what their strange, borrowed marriage is truly made of — and whether what they have built together is strong enough to survive when the walls close in.

Worth Saving is a richly emotional Regency romance of marriage under fire, love grown from duty, and the hard-won peace that waits on the other side of survival. For readers who love Jane Austen's wit, Georgette Heyer's period authenticity, and a heroine who saves the day with both courage and silver herb scissors.