Emma V. Leech

Two shattered souls. One hidden sanctuary. A love born from ruin.
A witty, sensual Regency Romance from Best Selling Author Emma V Leech
Lady Isabella Scranford’s life is over—or so she believes. Ruined, abandoned, and carrying a child whose father refuses to claim her, she knows society will show her no mercy. With a reputation for being cold‑hearted and unkind, she can expect only scorn, not sympathy. Even her dearest friend turns her back, leaving Isabella utterly alone. In a world that punishes a fallen Regency heroine, she has nowhere left to turn.

Desperate and hopeless, Isabella makes a terrible choice… and is saved by a man more frightening than the fate she fled.

Henry Barbour, known as the Bear of Barcham Wood, lives in crumbling isolation at Barcham Place. Wild, unkempt, and wrapped in rumours of madness, he is a figure whispered about in terror. Yet the man who drags Isabella from the water is not a monster—only a haunted, wounded recluse, a gentle giant hero with scars no one sees.

Thrown together by circumstance, these two damaged souls form an unlikely, fragile bond. Hidden away in an isolated manor, Isabella begins to see past Henry’s fearsome exterior, discovering a gentleness and honour she never expected. And Henry, who has long believed himself unworthy of human warmth, finds himself fiercely protective of the woman fate has delivered to his door.

As Isabella learns compassion—and receives it in return—she realises that the things she once valued mean nothing at all. And the man she feared may be the only one capable of saving her… body and soul.