Emma V. Leech

She’s sworn off love. He’s sworn to God. Temptation has other ideas.
A tender, incendiary Victorian romance from Best Selling Author Emma V Leech
After breaking things off with her childhood sweetheart and long‑term fiancé, Oliver Cootes, Miss Alana Cadogan flees to Holbrook House to lick her wounds. Surrounded by family, comfort, and her dearest friend Lady Catherine Barrington, she hopes to avoid the looming horror of another London season.

Naturally, there’s a catch.

The Reverend Harry Martin.

Harry has had quite enough of young ladies lurking behind hedges, lying in wait, and attempting to lure him into compromising situations. Being a handsome clergyman is a curse he never asked for. And now he must contend with Miss Cadogan — outspoken, opinionated, infuriatingly lovely Miss Cadogan — who rubs him entirely the wrong way and occupies far too much of his mind.

Clergymen ought not look like Harry Martin.
It simply isn’t decent.

Alana knows she should avoid him. He’s a prig. A nuisance. A man who makes her feel things she absolutely should not feel about someone who has dedicated his life to God. But Harry is also kind, earnest, and hiding wounds far deeper than his immaculate waistcoat suggests. And Alana, with her fierce heart and stubborn courage, cannot help but want to understand him.

When Harry confesses the truth of his past — the guilt, the fear, the belief that he is unworthy of any woman, least of all her — Alana’s heart is lost. But Harry cannot imagine a world in which he deserves love, let alone marriage.

Yet when danger strikes and Alana proves she is braver than he ever dreamed, Harry must face the truth: salvation comes in many forms.
And sometimes, it comes wrapped in beauty, fire, and a very indecent amount of daring.

A wounded heroine.
A reluctant vicar.
And a love story bold enough to challenge heaven itself.