Novel
This book is no longer accepting ARC readers and has been archived.
Revised manuscript...**** GETTING 4-5 Star reviews now on Amazon!
Please READ NOW or re-read if you read an earlier version.
Want to read a slow-burning, friends-to-lovers romance? Escape to 1956, England, and New York City in its heyday!
She needed to escape. He offered a solution—but risking his heart wasn’t part of the plan.
England, 1956. Eighteen-year-old Katie Clarke is out of time. Her well-meaning parents are pushing her to accept reality and a wealthy brute. She’ll have everything—everything except love. The dream of true love is desperately slipping away.
When charming Dane Wellington, the handsome son of her family's landlord, discovers her plight, he proposes an unconsummated marriage of convenience, with a guaranteed annulment. She’ll have a new life with endless possibilities.
Their endearing friendship ignites into flames of desire when unexpected bed-sharing shatters every sworn boundary. But as Dane's ironclad self-control is crumbling, Katie realizes she's fallen for a man who's vowed never to love.
Dane faces his worst nightmare as the annulment looms and an ocean divides them: he wants her more than his next breath. But past wounds run deep, and the three pivotal words she needs to hear may be the ones he can never say.
Will he protect his heart—or love her evermore?
By participating, you agree to Pen Pinery's Terms and Conditions.