A Soldier and his Rules (The Pemberton #2)
Olivia Elliott
She is a passionate artist who rarely does as she’s told.
His haunted past and secret shame stand like a wall between them in this hot and spicy Regency romance.
The Soldier
Lord Richard Winter has returned from the continent a war hero. A former Major in His Majesty’s army, the death of his infamously disreputable father has left him the new viscount. While his physical wounds of war have all but healed, his emotional wounds continue to fester. Richard stands like a mountain of muscle and strength, but he is a guarded man who takes comfort in adhering to his own set of rules.
It seems there is nothing that can break down his defences until a rather brazen young lady chooses to give him a dressing down in public. The full-figured, curvaceous young lady who confronts Richard provokes an altogether unwelcome feeling within him. She is beautiful, and she is infuriating, and he knows he should keep his distance.
The Artist
At the age of twenty-seven, and without even one proposal of marriage to her name, Patience Pemberton is quite fed up with the social scene and with trying to be what she is not—agreeable and winsome and pleasant. Her natural inclination is to laugh too loudly and to speak without thinking. She pours all of her energy into her artwork as a portrait painter, and so it is with some excitement that she looks forward to making her mark at the Royal Academy by painting the dowager viscountess Lady Winter. Unfortunately, her mouth has run off with itself again, and she finds herself yelling into the face of a rather large and forbidding stranger who just so happens to be Lady Winter’s son!
While Patience herself is initially enraged by the viscount, she finds his face most extraordinary. As a portrait artist, she is accustomed to looking closely at a person’s face, and what she sees in Richard Winter’s intrigues her: he is haunted, he is furious, and he has a death wish.
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