Henry Delamere, the seventh Earl of Ashthorpe, has built an impossibly thick wall of ice around his heart, and only his granddaughter can thaw it.
He’d do anything for Mina, but she just wants two things—a new storybook and a new grandmama. Henry can’t see why either should be too hard to acquire.
Miss Susannah Beasley has no idea where the years have gone. Wasn’t it just yesterday she was a girl dancing on the green with her sweetheart?
True, that fellow married another long ago, and Susannah only sees a gray-haired old woman when she looks in the glass. But her flame still burns brightly.
When the frosty Henry Delamere comes to Susannah’s village in search of a mysterious author, the friction between them makes that flame glow, flare high, become a torch. Is it a signal?
A guiding light? Or will the spark of their passion set her whole life ablaze?
Susannah wants a blaze. A bonfire. An inferno. But Henry’s past—and hers—could turn everything to ash. Can she find the fuel to light her earl on fire?
