A damaged man with a deep burden must trust the woman he’s fallen for with his secret in this beautiful Regency romance by New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Grace Burrowes.

As an innocent boy of fourteen, Ethan Grey's father sent him off to an obscure boarding school where he endured abuse that no young boy should have to deal with. Now an adult, he's carried this secret with him his entire life, too ashamed to share it with anyone. The beautiful Alice Portman, an earl's daughter, has been governessing under an assumed name to hide from a scandal she's harbored since childhood. Little does she know, she and her new boss Ethan have more in common than they thought. But when Ethan's son is kidnapped, they'll be forced to choose between continuing their lives of loneliness and shame, or bonding over their troubled pasts and healing together.