Sworn to Protect

<p><strong>Sworn to Protect</strong></p><p>He made a promise. To keep her safe... even if it meant marrying her.</p><p><strong>Salvatore</strong> never breaks his word. When he swore to protect <strong>Lizzie</strong> for her dying father he thought it would be simple-guard her until she married someone else. But keeping that promise demanded the unthinkable: he had to become her husband.</p><p>Now bound by vows neither of them expected Salvatore faces a battle he never saw coming. Lizzie refuses to be just a bride in name only-she wants a real marriage with trust passion and love. And the more he tries to keep his distance the harder it becomes to resist the fire she awakens in him.</p><p>Caught between duty and desire Salvatore realizes the greatest danger to Lizzie may not come from the shadows surrounding them... but from the man who swore to protect her.</p>