If Nicholas were honest with himself, he'd admit to still being in love with Tessa Monroe, despite her engagement to Lord De Luca. He buries his hurt, letting it fester into a burning anger that is slowly poisoning him. When the brazen female pirate Meg approaches him in the middle of the night with a bottle of brandy, Nicholas can sense the trouble. But now that Tessa has abandoned him, why should he worry so much about resisting Meg?
“A Slip Into Solace” is a short story that retells a pivotal scene from the novel Undertow from another character’s point of view.