The hero has been banished to a country estate after a very public scandal involving a dead lover and a bastard child. Overall, he's a kind natured man but honestly a tad selfish as well. He doesn't think so much about the consequences his actions wrought and repeats past mistakes by taking a lover of lower rank with no intention to marry them. The heroine is a local witch that the villagers somewhat rely on because of her healing abilities but never trust. They are very quick to accuse her of all sorts of heinous crimes and try to kill her by drowning in the lake. The hero never judged her as others had, not even when he witnesses her magic first hand. He honestly didn't know he loved her until the end but it's very apparent throughout the book that he cares for her and finds a bonding between them via their equal loneliness. It was a nice book and I always recommend Lisa Cach as a marvelous author. ( )

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