


But it had been impossible to see him as anything more than a boy like her darling brother. Can he convince the reluctant widow that he’s no longer the callow youth she remembers but a hardened former soldier with a need for her gentle touch? And if he can manage to woo her, will she promise him forever now that she’s just regained her precious freedom? Portia Bascombe Daventry had always known Tony Ogilvy had a crush on her. Portia Daventry, looking more delectable than ever and with a speculative gleam in her eyes. Now, years later, and facing his mother’s insistence that it’s past time he married, Tony is wandering the notorious dark walk at Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens when he stumbles upon none other than the now widowed Mrs. Anthony Ogilvy, Earl of Leighton fell in love with his best friend’s elder sister years ago-but she’d only had eyes for the dashing cavalry officer she’d later eloped with.
