The Empress Returns

Maria Tompson put her medical skill and her grandfather's command of the army behind John Yates and carried him to the throne. What she got for it was her whole family put to the sword and a wretched death of her own. She opens her eyes five years earlier, carrying every memory of what is coming and everything she learned as a physician. She swears she will not play the fool a second time. Her younger brother and her grandmother are alive and she intends to keep them that way. She goes after the woman who plays sweet in public and works against her in private, she moves on the man who used her, and she means to have her enemies pay in blood for what they took. What she did not plan for is Issac Yates, her former husband's younger brother, who will not leave her alone. She has promised herself she will never set foot in the Yates household again, and the pull between the two of them is not obeying that promise.