The Legend of the Werestag

If a woman could die of humiliation, Cecily Hale would have perished three hours ago. Luke Trenton had finally returned to Swinford Manor, only to cruelly spurn her long-held love. But she couldn't conveniently die of shame on the spot. Instead she joined her friends on this ridiculous search for a legendary man-beast. Now she'll die here, alone in the woods, at the tusks of a snarling boar. Luke left for war a dashing youth and returned a man, just not the same man Cecily fell in love with. His passion for her is stronger than ever, but the ravages of battle changed him in ways she wouldn't understand. Pushing her away was supposed to save her, not throw her into the path of another inhuman creature ... or into the arms of another man. For it is a man who rescues Cecily, just as the boar attacks. A mysterious, silent man who disappears into the woods, leaving her with just a glimpse of a fleeing white deer. Could her rescuer be the man-beast of local lore?