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Eli Dawes avait tout : la beauté, l'arrogance de la jeunesse, et les plus belles femmes à ses pieds. Mais Waterloo a brisé sa vie. Blessé, il fuit Londres pour se terrer à la campagne sur son domaine d'Avondale House, qui accueille désormais un institut pour jeunes filles. Il ne s'attendait certes pas à y retrouver Rose Hayward, qui y enseigne les arts plastiques! Rose, qui ne connaît de lui que l'insupportable noceur de jadis. Rose, qui le méprise de toute son âme et ne voudra jamais croire qu'il a changé. Rose, qu'il n'a jamais pu oublier et qui, au premier regard, l'enflamme d'une passion désespérée...

After Waterloo, Eli Dawes, Earl of Rivers, was presumed dead—and would have happily stayed that way. He's no longer the reckless young man he once was, and only half as pretty. All he wants is to hide his scars away in his country home. But when he returns home and tries to sneak into his old bedroom in the middle of the night, he's shocked to find someone already there.

Rose Hayward remembers Eli as an arrogant rake who helped her late fiancé betray her. Finding him stealing into the house currently rented by Haverhall School for Young Ladies doesn't correct her impression. Her only thought is to get him to leave immediately. Yet the tension between them is electric, and her painter's eye can't help but admire him, scars and all. He might be back from the dead, but now Rose will do anything to make him feel truly alive.