Minamahal, Layla

Second Lieutenant Miguel Tavera was a Spanish mestizo who never wanted to be a soldier. A young man whose promise had always been in the arts and in language. But when duty-and a family name steeped in power-forced him to lead his own men, he ran.

Until Layla, a woman whose healing hands brought her more trouble than comfort, finds him-on the verge of unconsciousness, dehydrated and wounded. In the quiet of her humble home, she nurses him back to health.

Time slows as they share stolen glances and tenderness that belongs only to lovers.

Yet in a world where names carried power, and class determined how one lived, Layla finds herself in the center of vile accusations.

Miguel must choose between the world that gave him the finest things it could offer and the woman who saved his life.