Wild Side

Guardianship of her nephew is being contested, and the quickest route to keeping him where he belongs in Rose Hill is a marriage she never wanted. Elsie Silver puts two people with every reason to avoid each other under one roof: a woman who has not forgiven an old betrayal, and Rhys Dupris, secretive, often away for weeks and returning with injuries he refuses to explain. The novel runs on the friction of shared space, on trust earned slowly, and on the distance between the man everyone assumes he is and the one who turns up when it counts. It sits within the author's small-town Rose Hill series. For readers weighing it up: • Marriage-of-convenience romance with a custody battle underneath • Small-town Rose Hill setting shared with the author's related novels • A guarded, protective hero whose work stays deliberately unexplained • Steamy contemporary romance written for adult readers Aimed at contemporary romance readers who like forced proximity and slow-burn tension. Order from Boipoka.