My Dearest Friend
Publisher: Wings ePress
Published: January, 2008
Place of publication: USA
Format: Paperback; eBook
ISBN-13: 9781597057959
First sentence: London, January 1812
The candles burned brightly in the sconces set about the smoke-filled gaming room of Regan’s, the latest and most fashionable gaming hell to open its doors to the cream of London society.
Description: Robert Blake, Duke of Lear, is a man of intense emotions who loves deeply and protects fiercely. Devastated and wracked with guilt by the death of his younger brother, Stefan, in the Peninsular War,  he readily agrees to aid Jane Chandler to bring her seriously wounded brother back from Portugal.
Much against Jane’s wishes, he decides to accompany her and together they embark on the hazardous mission to retrieve the young soldier.  However, the journey holds many revelations, not least of all the abiding friendship and growing love between the two travelers.

That special love is put severely to the test by the treachery that awaits them upon their return to England, when a tenant of Jane’s former home invades their lives, maliciously creating jealousy and misunderstandings for his own nefarious reasons.

Can their friendship and love conquer the emotions that threaten to tear them asunder?