He wants her gone. She wants to leave. The problem? She can't remember where she came from. Hugh Longville keeps his distance from everyone. Especially anyone who may recognize him and remember what he did ten years before. So when he comes to the rescue of a strange woman deep in the forest that's been his home for so long, he wants her back where she came from as soon as possible. But there's a hitch. Waking up after a bump on the head is unpleasant, but especially terrifying when you wake up in a strange place with no recollection of how you got there. Thus, Diana Stilwell finds herself at Eastbend Lodge, deep in New Forest with only a foreboding man and his servants for company. Stranded by rains, Diana and Hugh are forced to find a middle ground for their tumultuous natures. But the more Diana sees of this strange and formidable man, the more she sees passed his façade of surliness and into the kind and hurting heart he carries. Can she convince him that forgiveness and love are possible?

They made a vow based on the impossible. But what will they do now that the impossible has happened? Though they were exact opposites, Gussie Stilwell and Harry Fletcher often played together growing up in Rutland, England. To pass the time one hot summer day, they vowed to marry each other should Harry ever inherit his distant cousin’s baronetcy, sealing their pact with blood. When he made the Pact, Harry knew he would never inherit Camrose from his cousin. He was third in line behind two robust men, including his brother, after all. But when a series of unthinkable events saddle him with the baronetcy, Harry must return from soldiering in Bombay to take up the mantle. With Gussie’s letters keeping him company on the voyage, he wrestles with the question whether to honor the childhood pact with his best friend, if she was willing, that is… Gussie is not made for marriage. A fact she has known for years, declaring to anyone who asked that she will never participate in the institution. She made the Pact with Harry safe in the conviction that he would never inherit. They would simply remain best friends, even if Harry stayed in India as a soldier for the rest of his days. But when Harry arrives in England as Sir Harry, a baronet who now must marry, Gussie must decide which vow to keep.

Rosy Barrett is a woman of simple tastes, asking nothing more than for leave to ride from dawn until dusk and tend to the horses in her father’s stables at Broadstone Manor. With the foaling season well underway, she is wholly focused on obtaining the beginnings of her own future breeding operation, separate from her father’s. Wholly focused, that is, until Giles Harrington, the boy she loved as a child, appears out of nowhere into her life again. Seven years after his father’s financial ruin, Giles Harrington, Lord Montbury, does not like to waste time or money, having little to spare of either resource. While traveling home from a failed investment opportunity, Giles is led by chance to Rutland to his old acquaintances, the Barretts of Broadstone. Here, he finds Rosy, a girl he hardly remembers, a grown woman now, and all sunshine and smiles as she runs wild in her father’s stables. The more time he spends in her company, the more Giles is affected by her, beginning to believe that life, with the right people surrounding you, can offer the joy and happiness he doesn’t think he deserves.