The Earl's Curse

The last thing Nicholas Brooke, Earl of Winterhaven, wants to add to his already complicated life is a wife, and he vows to elude matrimony. He has given up on the fairer sex and has accepted, grudgingly so, that the women of the ton are a deceitful bunch that he would rather avoid. Unfortunately, a curse that has haunted the male descendants of his family for centuries forewarns that he will die if he has not found true love by his thirty-fifth birthday, a day that is only a month away when the book begins. Nicholas, however, is not worried. He does not believe in unexplainable myths and refuses to marry despite his family's increasing concern and irritation as the day of his birth draws near.
Emma Cartwright has suffered with a special gift since birth and while she dreams of a husband and children to love, she knows all too well that marriage is impossible. Her mother had the gift of healing, her grandmother the gift of sight, but Emma's gift, one that haunts her nearly every day, is the ability to see death before it occurs. Whenever she is touched, she experiences a vision that is grisly more times than it isn't and she knows that she cannot face a lifetime of experiencing her husband's death. She has accepted the fact that she will live the life of a spinster.