A killer is stalking Peter Jennett, Viscount Easterbrook. His cousin's home in the Lake District village of Buttermere seems the perfect place to hide-until Peter is shot and left for dead. His last conscious thought is to hide his identity and confuse his assassin. Forced into the care of a local nurse, the last thing he expects is to discover a woman who makes him wish he were the simple man he pretends to be. Nurse Anne Albright has never been attracted to a patient, but Peter Matthews, an estate manager wounded by a poacher's errant shot, is special and captures her heart. She never thought she'd find such a man: one who doesn't care about her history or reputation. Then she discovers his secrets, and one is so huge, so personal and so hurtful, she can't forgive him. She'll force herself to nurse him even as he ignores the truth and places a target on his back, and as he helps her face truths of her own.