She forgot she loved him.
He would die to make her remember.
Meg Foxcroft has never minded the tattling village gossip or her uncle’s ill-tempered rebukes. After all, she has Tom McGwen—and one day, they will build their own cottage, paint it red, and live a wonderful life.
But then the unthinkable happens. Meg is attacked, her uncle’s apothecary shop goes up in flames, and when she wakes up in the arms of an eloquent lord, she remembers nothing. Not even her own name.
In a frantic race against time, Tom plunges into dangerous water, bent on sheltering Meg from harm and discovering who wants her dead. Even if she despises him. Even if it’s now the handsome lord she casts her smile upon.
As danger swells and truth comes crashing around them, Meg must confront the past and decide who she trusts—and loves—before the enemy makes the final strike.
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Summary
4.5 stars Review by Rebecca
"If God were a mind to take memories, He should have taken them from them both."
Following a delicious night of playful flirtation, stolen kisses and innocent dreams of a red cottage surrounded by lilac bushes, Tom McGwen dropped off the love his life, Meg Foxcroft, at her uncle's home under the cover of darkness, and headed back to his room over the blacksmith shop. Only to be interrupted by her scream of terror. Turning back was just the beginning of Tom's nightmare, Meg was nowhere to be found and her uncle was dead.
Awakening in a beautiful room surrounded by the whispers and faces of strangers, Meg Foxcroft could not remember a thing about herself. Upon finding her battered body lying helplessly under a tree, Lord Benedict Cunningham had carefully transported her to his estate, where his personal physician and household staff was seeing to Meg's every need. As the details emerge about that fateful night, a brutish young man declares them to be the closest of acquaintances, scaring Meg into sending him away, then later musing that there was something hopelessly familiar about his handsome face and steady gaze.
This is by no means an ordinary romance, rather it's an extraordinary tale featuring misunderstandings, viscious criminal intentions and carefully veiled details. Beautiful word flow carries the narrative around every twist and turn, the author penning exceptionally layered characters with pasts entangled through wisps and whims of memory, and slips and slivers of faith, leaving readers poised to wonder if the past will be ever be remembered, and if so, will it even be enough.
Another ingenious, intriguing atmospheric romance which takes advantage of every opportunity to tell its story.
I voluntarily reviewed a copy of this book from Barbour Publishing. The opinions stated above are entirely my own.