An enemy from the past is all it takes to change things around…

Governess Elizabeth Peaton has never known true love until she finally meets her employer’s melancholy brother. Not knowing how to deal with the unfamiliar and intense emotions he ignites within her, she lets herself burn in his fire.

Still haunted by his fiancé’s unsolved murder, Gerard Watton, the Duke of Hadminster, has thrown himself into his business. However, that changes when his sister’s captivating governess brings forth feelings he thought himself unable to experience ever again.

But as tension and feelings run wild, someone threatens to snatch his happiness away from him a second time.

When someone tries to poison Elizabeth, the crippling fear of the past repeating itself resurfaces, and Gerard is hard-pressed to act fast. For one is an accident, two is a tragedy, but three is murder…