A Rogue to Unlace Her by Carla Templeton

The gentleman who must protect her…
…is the rogue who broke her heart!

Lady Iris Clarendon has been promised in marriage to a Duke, but she cannot forget Mr Eric Campbell, her brother’s roguish bodyguard who seduced her and abandoned her four years earlier. She is shocked to come across him again in Rome, and to discover he has become a wealthy antiquarian! When her brother mysteriously disappears, she has no choice but to accept Eric’s protection. As a guest in his luxurious Roman palazzo, will the rogue prove too tempting to resist?

Determined to leave a life of crime and violence behind him, Eric Campbell begins anew in Rome. But when Lady Iris unexpectedly reappears in his life, he yearns again for the forbidden taste of her lips. Can he overcome his dark past and convince her that she can trust him with her heart again?