Forgotten Vows (Forged Alliances)

To save his wife, he risked duty, honor, and his life. To keep her, he must risk his heart.

When his wife was lost at sea seven years ago, Valentine St Aubyn, Duke of Dalton, nearly destroyed himself searching for her. Since then, the formidable spymaster has survived by discipline, control, and the ruthless belief that love must never be allowed to rule a man.

Until a traitor offers him the impossible.

His wife is alive.

To find her, Valentine must betray the Foreign Office, free a dangerous enemy, and risk everything he has built.

He does not hesitate.

But the woman he finds remembers nothing of him.

Vivienne has no memory of being a duchess, no memory of the passionate marriage they once shared, and no memory of loving the dangerously controlled man who storms into the church on the day of her wedding claiming she’s his wife.

Desperate to recover her past, she agrees to spend seven weeks with Dalton. Seven weeks to decide whether she can remain beside a husband she no longer recognizes. Who watches her like a man starving.

But the more Vivienne remembers the secrets hidden within their marriage, the losses they endured, and the devastating love Valentine has spent years trying to master, the clearer it becomes:

The husband she has forgotten would burn the world to save her.

And this time, he may lose everything trying.

Amnesia romance

Marriage in trouble / second-chance romance

Reunited lovers

He fell first (and stayed fallen)

Devoted / You are the only one for me hero

Celibate hero

Forced proximity

Tortured duke

Spymaster hero

Slow burn / high heat

Bondage & D/s

Kidnapping & rescue

Pregnancy after loss / surviving miscarriage

Victorian historical (1867)

Espionage subplot