Forget Me Not

There once was this boy I loved very much. He would leave a rose on my doorstep on my birthdays and on the anniversary of the day we met. I don't know what happened to him. I lost my memory and my ability to speak after a horrendous hit-and-run accident. A different boy shows up like clockwork at the bar I bartend at, but he's not a boy. He's all man. Tall. Imposing. Brooding. Guns for arms. Doesn't speak a lick to me. He stares at me from his dark corner with this intensity, as though I should know him. Do I? What secret does he hold in that sinfully hot body of his? I'm willing to give up on ever seeing the boy I once loved for time with the man who could have the answer for what's missing from my life. Where did the boy I loved go?

Marriages can be arranged. Love cannot. Julia Cummings has long been acquainted with loss-her mother, her brother, her sister, her friend, all gone too soon. But the loss that pushed her grief to the limit as a young girl was that of her best friend, Lucas Jonquil, who abandoned her without looking back. Now, eight years later, Lucas has returned to Lampton Park, and Julia has steeled herself-she will never forgive the man who broke her heart. After losing too many of his friends and family to early deaths, Lucas vowed to live life to the fullest. And after traversing the world, he has returned from his adventures to find his family and home as he left them-except for Julia. The little girl he left behind has blossomed into a captivating lady, a lady who makes it clear she despises him. With little hope of reconciliation, the former friends are blindsided when their parents make a shocking announcement. Lucas and Julia have been betrothed without their knowledge and are to marry immediately. Now Lucas must rely on the help of his closest friends to win the heart of a lady who loathes him-a lady he's coming to love more deeply every day.