A chance at redemption...and a love worth fighting for?Fiercely handsome Michael Avenel has been to hell and back during the Peninsular War. Paralyzed from the waist down, he is convinced his life is over until a desperate young woman comes to his door one fateful night. Lovely Bryony Wells was forced to endure an abusive marriage for the sake of her sons. Once she is widowed, and her eldest boy inherits, she is terrified at what her evil in-laws will do to them all in order to secure the fortune for themselves, and flees.On the run with her two small sons, she is at her wit's end until she stumbles into Michael's life...and heart. He offers the destitute and desperate woman a decent job and home. She grows determined to repay Michael's kindness by bringing him out of his black despair, and helping him walk again.Bryony becomes his secretary, and finds Michael a model employer, with his mastery soon extending to her body and soul. For as their intimacy increases, Bryony is certain she is falling in love with Michael, and that her feelings might actually be returned. The heated passion Michael feels for Bryony spurs hm into trying to recover his health so he can be the man and incredible lover he feels she deserves. He starts to dare hope that the woman he has come to love above all else might actually be his for the asking, the family he has always dreamed of as well.But soon Bryony's evil brother in law Derek makes his move. Michael encounters a cunning enemy from his worst nightmare. Can Michael ever be the hero Bryony needs him to be? Can Bryony ever escape the ghosts from her past, and through her love for Michael, help him escape from his own?