With love Emma
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Meet Emma Zennor, a down to earth country girl who finds happiness in small things.
Emma never dreamed of finding a love match, but she didn't expect to get married to a man who called her Miss. Zennor like they didn't take wedding vows. She also didn't expect to fall in love with her husband. It should have been really simple but it was not.
Meet Lord Nicholas Advent, duke of Watford.
Nicholas never wanted to remarry after his wife's death. But he didn't expect to get married to Emma Zennor, a beautiful young lady half his age and fall in love with her. But he could never be her husband, didn't he already prove he made a terrible husband.
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