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*Villain gets the girl

*Hero has a change of heart

*Memory loss

*She searches for him

BLURB

Even villains can have a change of heart.

Barnaby Mavis has made many mistakes in his life and has been trying his hardest to atone for them. On his way to fix one of his mistakes, he gets thrown from his horse and tumbles off a cliff, the fall stealing his memories and placing him at death’s door.

Ivette Danvers’ life changed the moment a man fell from the cliffside on her property. After nursing him back to health, she was shocked to find he remembered nothing of his past life. Not his name nor his home or family.

Could their blossoming feelings be true, even when he doesn’t remember his past identity?

But as Ivette’s past sneaks up on her, she realizes this stranger is the only one who can help her. But when he disappears, telling her not to come looking for him, she fears she will lose everything and everyone she holds dear. If she doesn’t find him, her entire future will crumble. Including her heart.

Excerpt from Always, Ivette

Wordlessly, he took her hand and pulled her onto his lap. She gasped in surprise, at least until he pushed her face into his shoulder. She held still for several long moments before her shoulders began shaking, and she sobbed into his shirt.

He swallowed against the rising emotion stuck in his throat.

“I’m so tired,” she wept. “These are my sisters, but I feel like I’m their mother. I do so much. I take on so much of the burdens they have no idea about! Financially, we are ruined. I don’t know what to do, Ben. I just don’t know what to do.”

He stroked her long, soft hair, slightly damp from the rain, and frowned at her pain. “What about the money you get from the wool?”

She shook her head and sniffed. “My father took out a loan from a lender in my mother’s name and ran away with the money and another woman.” Another sniff. “I fled with my sisters to another kingdom to give us more time, but without money, I had to take out a loan from a different lender to pay for the house and sheep.” She clutched onto his shirt and continued sobbing into his shoulder. “I can’t do this, Ben. I can’t shoulder this anymore. I can’t keep my sisters housed and fed.”

“It shouldn’t have to be your responsibility,” he murmured into her hair.

“But it is.”

“What can I do? I have no name. No money. Well, not much, at least. And nothing but the clothes on my back. Yet, I will do anything to help shoulder your burdens.” He tucked a strand of hair behind her ear as she lifted her face from his shoulder until they were only an arm’s width apart. “What can I do for you?”

“Stay,” she whispered. “The rustlers might return. Stay. To protect us and our livestock.”

He blew out a long breath.

If he stayed, he might lose the chance to discover his identity. That, and he risked the girls’ reputation being an unmarried man staying on a property filled with unmarried women. But he cared about this family. He cared about her. And he didn’t care what anyone else might think of the situation.

“I will.”