“Months?” One month was forever when a man wanted only to do the single thing denied him. If you try too hard or too soon to regain it, you’ll make the hand worse than ever.” Not just days, not just weeks, and by then you will have lost some of the dexterity you hone so keenly now. The hand might heal but only if you rest it until you’re ready to scream with frustration. “You are possibly done with music for the rest of your life, my friend. Silence, until Val opened his eyes and glanced down at where his left hand, aching and swollen, lay uselessly on his thigh.ĭavid sat beside him, making a polite pretense of surveying the surrounding paddocks and fields. He closed his eyes and drew breath into his lungs by act of will. To give up the home he’d forged for his soul despite his ducal father’s ridicule, his mother’s anxiety, and his siblings’ inability to understand what music had become to him.
To give up the one mistress Val loved, the one place he was happy and competent. Being called the baby boy any time he’d shown the least tender sentiment had fired his will to the strength of iron and given him the ability to withstand almost any blow without flinching.īut this… This was diabolical, this demand David made of him. Being the youngest of five boys and named Valentine-for God’s sake-had given him fast reflexes, abundant muscle, and an enviable poker face. Lord Valentine Windham neither moved nor changed his expression when he heard his friend-a skilled and experienced physician-pronounce sentence. “Refreshing.a luminous and graceful erotic Regency.“My best advice is to give up playing the piano.” “Burrowes’ enchanting romance charms from the beginning!” – RT Book Reviews, 4 starts “Sweet, sexy, tender romance between two characters so vibrant they seem to leap off the page.” – Meredith Duran, author of Wicked Becomes You “Captivating.Burrowes’ sensual love story is intelligent and tender.” – Publishers Weekly, STARRED Review
Together they’ll find there’s no rescue from the past, but sometimes losing everything can help you find what you need most. Her curious new neighbor offers a kindred lonely soul whose desperation is matched only by his desire, but Ellen’s devastating secret could be the one thing that destroys them both. Grieving Ellen Markham has hidden herself away, looking for safety in solitude. But when Val loses his music, he flees to the country, alone and tormented by what has been robbed from him.
Gifted pianist Valentine Windham, youngest son of the Duke of Moreland, has little interest in his father’s obsession to see his sons married, and instead pours passion into his music.
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