A Warriner To Rescue Her (The Wild Warriners)

Tempted by the damsel in distress!

Captain James Warriner is startled to find a curvaceous beauty caught up a tree in his orchard! Despite his shattered leg, he rescues Miss Cassandra Reeves, then is determined to have nothing more to do with the enticing vicar's daughter.

Except when Cassie seeks Jamie out to apologize, they find themselves persuaded to work together on her storybook. Secret liaisons with the dashing soldier make Cassie wish Jamie would rescue her once more…by making her his wife!

When I wrote the first book in this 'Wild Warriners' series,A Warriner to Protect Her, I was pretty certain what sort of direction I wanted the second book to go. As a damaged former soldier with a talent for covert reconnaissance, I wanted to bring those skills in to play for Jamie Warriner's story. I envisioned some sort of tale involving intrigue- perhaps even espionage. However, as my characters so often do, Jamie took me down a completely different path. The more I got to know him, the more I knew he was actually a deeply sensitive soul underneath all of his monosyllabic gruffness. A man who painted delicate and beautiful flowers was not really ever meant to be so fluent in violence. He  didn't need to return to his military ways, he needed saving. It was then that I first began toying with the idea of introducing Jamie to a vicar's daughter.

Around the same time, I was rooting around the attic one daylooking for something and came across one of my children's old storybooks, The Tale of Peter Rabbit by the wonderful Beatrix Potter. A woman who used her childhood pets as inspiration for her wonderfully vivid and brightly illustrated stories. Before I knew it, my soft-hearted vicar's daughter had a horse called Orange Blossom and a talent for writing. With his art and her words, surely they were a match made in Heaven? If only I could convince Jamie, of course...