Grasp the Thorn

<p><strong>An accident brings them together. Will a scandal tear them apart?</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Bear Gavenor has retired from war and built a business restoring abandoned country manors to sell to the newly rich. He'd like to settle in one himself and raise a family but the marriage mart is full of harpies like his mother.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(5 5 5 1)>Rosa Neatham's war is just starting. Penniless and evicted from her home she despairs of being able to care for her invalid father. When she returns to her former home to pick his favourite flower she is injured in a fall.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(5 5 5 1)>Bear the new occupant of the cottage offers shelter to her and her father. When scandal erupts he offers more. He wants a family. She needs a protector. A marriage of convenience will suit them both and perhaps grow to be more.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(5 5 5 1)>When secrets self-doubts and old feuds threaten to destroy their budding relationship can they grasp the thorn of scandal to gather the rose of love?</span></p>