She's desperate for peace and safety... Lucinda, Lady Denbigh, is running from a husband who physically and emotionally abuses her because she is unfashionably plump and has failed to produce an heir. Posing as a widow, she seeks refuge in the quiet countryside... He's returned from the wars, wounded and tormented... Lord Hugo Wanstead, with a wound that won't heal, and his mother's and Spanish wife's deaths on his conscience, finds his estate impoverished, his sleep torn by nightmares, and brandy his only solace. When he meets Lucinda, he finds her beautiful - body and soul - and thinks she just might give him something to live for ... Together they can begin to heal, but not until she is free from her violent past...
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Born in England and now living in Canada, Ann grew up loving history, but practicalities required she major in business, though she couldn't resist adding history as a minor.
Her Dad introduced her to Georgette Heyer in her early teens and she fell in love with the characters that populate the Georgian era, and within that, the period known as the long Regency. She also can't resist a happy ending.
Ann spends most of her days writing, with her little dog Teaser sitting beside her desk~ he has his own chair. Once a year she visits England to catch up with family and research the details for her next book.