The heart yearns for what it has lost.

After the death of her father, young Miss Emma Coleman journeys to the home of her godfather, whose care she has been placed under.

She is still a girl in the eyes of her father’s friend, but the younger Mister Howard sees her afresh. No longer is Emma running about the garden in pigtails and petticoats. A woman has entered these men’s domain.

A childhood friend turns into an addictive and dangerous flirtation. Emma’s broken heart yearns for the love in Adam’s eyes, and he in return needs her feminine allure to pull him back from a life consumed by the family business.

Will her being a ward in the elder Howard’s keeping force these two to remain asunder, or will the temptation under their own roof prove undeniable?

Marie Alexander