2018 RITA award-winning author!"Wherehave you been all my life, Kelly Bowen? If Julia Quinn, Sarah MacLean,and Lisa Kleypas were to extract their writing DNA, mix it in a blender,and have a love child, Kelly Bowen would be it."--HeroesandHeartbreakers.comEarl.War hero. Notorious rake. After the Battle of Waterloo, Eli Dawes waspresumed dead-and would have happily stayed that way. He's no longer thereckless young man he once was, and only half as pretty. All he wantsis to hide away in his country home, where no one can see his scars. Butwhen he tries to sneak into his old bedroom in the middle of the night,he's shocked to find someone already there.Rose Haywardremembers Eli as the arrogant lord who helped her late fiancé betrayher. Finding him stealing into her art studio doesn't correct herimpression. Her only thought is to get him to leave immediately. Yet thetension between them is electric, and she can't help but be drawn tohim. He might be back from the dead, but it's Rose who is suddenlyfeeling very,verymuch alive.