The Wilder Heart

Widow Madeleine Gray keeps up the family legacy of poetry by penning love poems for the love-starved sailors in 1811 Portsmouth. But she is no romantic herself-- she will never love again. Then Payton Wilder requests a customized Valentine poem for the girl of his dreams... and Maddy realizes that she has dreams of her own for the dashing captain! Award-winning Regency author Alicia Rasley sends a valentine of a book for those who think love might be sweeter the second time around. Rasley's women's fiction book, The Year She Fell, was a best-selling Kindle romance. Note: First appeared in the anthology A Valentine's Day Tangle, Zebra 1993