Emma V. Leech

She made one terrible mistake. He offers the second chance she never expected.
A Tender, Deeply Emotional Victorian Romance from Best Selling Author Emma V Leech
Miss Grace Weston is in trouble — the kind of trouble no unmarried young lady can survive. One foolish moment, one handsome scoundrel whispering pretty lies, and now she carries a secret that will break her parents’ hearts and ruin her family forever. Regret changes nothing. Tears change nothing. Her future is over… unless something extraordinary happens.
Enter Mr Sterling Oak.

A man of few words and many secrets, Sterling has spent his life walking the narrow line between his family’s humble past and the society that barely tolerates him. An educated farmer with a gentleman’s manners and a labourer’s calloused hands, he hides behind silence rather than reveal the depth of his heart. But Sterling sees what no one else has noticed — and something in Grace’s delicate despair moves him to make a shocking offer.
Marriage.

Grace doesn’t know what to make of the big, brooding man with the unreadable expression and the alarming tendency to grunt instead of speak. He’s intimidating, unsociable, and entirely unlike the charming rogue who ruined her. But she has no choice. And beneath Sterling’s rough exterior lies a steadiness she desperately needs… and a tenderness she never expected.
Accepting his proposal may be the second‑worst mistake of her life.
Unless it turns out to be the beginning of something wonderful.

A desperate young lady.
A quiet, complicated man.
And a marriage born of necessity that just might become a love worth daring everything for.