Ransom for a Gentleman's Honor

Selene Brookhaven has always known exactly how to fight with Aster Lakeborne. Their childhood betrothal was shaped by insults, pride, chestnut tarts, and a rivalry neither family could fully control. When Aster returns from captivity under a cloud of scandal, Selene claims his damaged reputation makes him unworthy of her, but her anger cannot hide the fact that she still remembers the boy who once saved her from drowning. Then Aster is taken again, and a ransom note demands that Selene bring one hundred gold sovereigns into the mountains herself. What she finds inside the brigands' keep is not the simple villainy of rumor, but a tangled truth of desperation, loyalty, deception, and a man determined to prove that his honor has always belonged to her. Ransom for a Gentleman's Honor is a passionate historical romance about childhood enemies, a dangerous ransom, family vows, wounded pride, and love revealed through courage.