To Stay

<p>When Eloise Somerset plunges into the icy depths of a river she doesn't die.</p><p>She wakes up in 1840.</p><p>Disoriented and alone she finds herself in a time she doesn't understand and a society that doesn't want her. Before she can grasp what's happened she stumbles into the lives of four orphaned siblings barely clinging to survival. They don't trust her-but they need her. And somewhere between grief desperation and sheer will Eloise decides she can't leave them.</p><p>Not yet.</p><p>To protect them she agrees to an impossible bargain with the man who controls their fate-an earl with cold eyes sharp words and a dangerously magnetic presence. The arrangement is simple: her obedience his protection. What begins as a deal born of necessity quickly transforms into a slow aching unraveling neither of them can resist.</p><p>But Eloise is from a different world-a different century. And love in Victorian England is never simple. Her presence is a threat. Her story a scandal waiting to explode. And the man she's come to care for? He belongs to a world that would destroy her without hesitation.</p><p>Still... he looks at her like she matters. Like she's more than the woman who fell from nowhere. Like she could belong.</p><p>As secrets unravel and passion ignites Eloise is forced to choose between the life she left behind and the impossible future she's building in a world that doesn't forgive women like her.</p><p>Then one night the river calls again.<br>And with it a choice:</p><p>Go back.<br>Forget everything.<br>Escape the pain.</p><p>Or stay.<br>And face a future carved out of sacrifice scandal and the kind of love that refuses to be forgotten.</p>