From her rescuer… …to her husband? When a braying mob attacks her home in the night, heiress Annis Flemming seeks shelter with her enigmatic neighbour Sir Bennet Thorne. Her life is at risk, so Ben escorts her to safety at Henry VIII’s Hatfield House. Though they grow closer on the journey, Annis’s distrust of men makes her wary, and Ben still grieves for his late wife. But when they realise the threat has followed them there’s only one means of true protection—marriage!