The obliterated battlefields of Spain are a world away from the privileged life of James Montague, Earl of Castonbury. Only nurse Catalina Moreno eases the deafening roar of mortar fire – and in a crumbling chapel by candlelight they make their vows. But before the sheets cool from their scorching wedding night, Jamie has to leave on a brutally dangerous mission…

Two years later, believing her husband dead, Catalina is shocked to see a man who looks and sounds like her Jamie at Castonbury – but where once there was warmth and charm, now unflinching torment lies in the gaze of the man she barely recognises…