Book excerpt: With her life and estate threatened, a lady turns to a man of extraordinary gifts in the New York Times bestselling author’s paranormal Regency romance. Western England, 1791. For Lady Primrose Wootten, nothing has been ordinary since her father the Baron died, leaving his wayward family to fill the estate with greed and treachery. Primrose knows if she can just track down her brother, he can send the odious relations on their way. But her search leads instead to a powerful stranger, and she forgets entirely what she was doing in the first place... Sir Bened Vaughn isn't much afraid of a pistol. But he is afraid of the primal urges stirred in him by the woman holding it. Vaughn is an honorable man, and he knows he has no right to desire Primrose. Yet he does have an obligation to help her, and as they learn more about her brother's disappearance, he realizes that means staying by her side—wanting her all the while—and wondering how much longer they can resist temptation.