This is a story primarily about struggling to find a place in a society that doesn't create places for queer people to live. Obviously, they discover they are attracted to each other and have to decide what this means for their plans. Ben Sedgewick has always vaguely intended to marry his childhood best friend, a prospect that has become more urgent with her having suffered an illness that has left her disabled. Captain Dacre is grieving the lover who he never confessed his feelings to, and not sure how to relate to the children his deceased wife managed while he was at sea. So the force that brings the two protags together is that Captain Phillip Dacre's kids are running wild in his absence, and Vicar Ben Sedgewick is the closest thing this century has to a social worker. If you hate stories where the kids are adorable moppets who exist primarily to clarify the protag's romantic entanglements, you will probably like this story. In the midst of runaway children, a plot to blackmail Ben’s family, and torturous nights of pleasure, Ben and Phillip must decide if a safe life is worth losing the one thing that makes them come alive. The unexpected presence of the cheerful, adorable vicar sets his world on its head and now he can’t seem to live without Ben’s winning smiles or devastating kisses. But his children have driven off a succession of governesses and tutors and he must set things right. Phillip can’t wait to leave England’s shores and be back on his ship, away from the grief that haunts him. Touching the irresistible vicar at every opportunity.And when their stern but gloriously handsome father arrives, Ben is tempted in ways that make him doubt everything.

When he’s asked to look after an absent naval captain’s three wild children, he reluctantly agrees, but instantly falls for the hellions.

Shamelessly flirting with the handsome Captain Phillip DacreĪfter an unconventional upbringing, Ben is perfectly content with the quiet, predictable life of a country vicar, free of strife or turmoil.

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