To Have and to Hold

She’s sure she’ll never love him. He’s sure he’ll never stop.

All Sir Percy Somerville wanted from his wife was her love. But after watching her meet his devotion with coldness for four years, he makes the devastating choice to withdraw his heart before it shatters completely.

Lady Cecily Somerville never desired her husband’s devotion, or indeed their marriage at all. What lady could delight in a husband twenty years her senior? But once he retracts his attentions, her contrary heart misses them. For the first time, a horrifying possibility occurs to her: that she may, in fact, care for her husband.

And it might be too late to win him back.