Never Forgotten
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Publisher Description
All He Wanted was Justice. All She Wanted was His Heart.
Georgina Whitmore, not accustomed to any man being unaffected by her charms, is plagued with the disappearance and rejection of Simon Fancourt. Twelve years later, Mr. Fancourt returns to British society with two children and a mad hunger for justice.
Racing against time, Simon works to uncover the men responsible for his wife’s horrific murder, protect his children, and fulfill his father’s unexpected will by marrying Georgina—the last thing in the world he wants to do.
Though her heart throbs to accept, she would rather lose him again than have his name without his love. She denies his proposal of matrimony, knowing it will cost them both. But as tragedies unravel and secret enemies narrow their sights on Simon, Georgina risks her life—and her reputation—to protect him and the children. Will the danger scorch them alive? Or will it, for the first time, open his heart to her?
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Beneath His Silence
When Tomorrow Came
Garden of the Midnights
The Girl from the Hidden Forest
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A woman's murder sends her husband on an international search for justice in Linder's energetic latest (after The Girl from the Hidden Forest). The story opens in turn-of-the-19th-century London as 17-year-old Simon Fancourt's father demands that he join the clergy and marry socialite Georgina Whitmore. Feeling restless and constrained, Simon flees to America. Twelve years later, he's living on a farm in North Carolina with his wife, Ruth, and two children. Tragedy strikes when two men break into the farmhouse and kill Ruth. Devastated, Simon learns that the suspects were British convicts illegally sent to America, so he returns to England to track down the responsible parties. When threats are made against his life, he asks Georgina—now 27 and still unmarried—to help protect his children. An attraction quickly grows between them, but Georgina struggles to move beyond Simon's past rejection while Simon grapples with his faith in a God that allowed tragedy to strike his family. Linder develops her characters' interior lives with subtlety and nuance, enriching the fast-moving plot with genuine tenderness and emotional depth. The result is an ideal mix of suspense and heart.