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he heart never forgets its first love...
GUILT TORE AWAY AT HIS SOUL...
Surrounded by callous fortune hunters, beautiful Emma Fitzwilliam despaired of ever finding a man who truly loved her. Until she came face-to-face with the man who'd once been the object of her girlhood fantasies.
Returning from the Peninsular War, Major Hugo Stratton was nothing like the lighthearted young man Emma remembered.
Scarred and embittered, his reputation in tatters, Hugo believed he had nothing to offer her. But as she caught glimpses of the man she once knew and felt the heat of his desire, Emma knew otherwise. Though it wasn't until a desperate situation forced Hugo's hand in marriage that Emma got her chance to discover if that were true. But what would it take to bring back to life the man she'd never stopped loving?
First publish date: 2003
Authors: Joanna Maitland
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