The Unseducible Earl

A nurse and a countess? Impossible!

After serving as her physician father’s assistant, then working as one of Florence Nightingale’s cadre during the Crimea War, nurse Victoria Thorne returns home not only with knowledge and experience befitting a medical man, but a shocking air of command as well. It’s no surprise to find her skills are valued in an emergency, or caring for the sick, but by many she’s regarded as a pariah. Making matters even worse, she can’t seem to resist her attraction to a man completely off-limits: her patient’s betrothed brother, the Earl of Cheriton.

To the world, Robben Merrick, Earl of Cheriton, has all a man could desire, but to Robb, he’s spent his life cocooned and set apart by his title. He’d hoped marriage and family would give him the satisfaction he’d always craved, yet even after winning the hand of the reigning belle of the season he’s far from content. Now, in love with his brother’s nurse, he’s caught in an inescapable snare. Ending his betrothal means entangling them all in scandal. He’s an honorable man, but how can he keep his vow when doing so means destroying all hope of happiness?

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“As refreshing as it is realistic.”—Kirkus Reviews on A Hero to Hold, named to Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of 2016