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The Magistrate's Convenient Bride
(2026)(The sixth book in the Vexleys series)
A novel by Emily Barnet
‘Thomas Ellery had spent his life learning never to act in haste. Lady Beatrice Vexley undid the lesson in a single afternoon.’
Lady Beatrice Vexley has never learned to hold her tongue when injustice unfolds before her. At twenty, she is the youngest Vexley sister, all passion and quick temper, the despair of her elder siblings and the delight of the village gossip.
So when a wealthy widow publicly accuses an innocent maid of theft in the middle of Merriton fair, Beatrice does what no respectable lady is meant to do. She steps forward. She raises her voice. She defends the powerless against the powerful, in front of half the county.
And she catches the eye of the one man who can either ruin her, or save her.
Captain Thomas Ellery, Magistrate of Merriton, is everything Beatrice is not. Controlled and measured. Bound by procedure as tightly as a soldier to his post. He believes in evidence, in patience, in the slow grinding of lawful justice.
He has reason to believe.
His own father was a magistrate too, destroyed by manufactured evidence and powerful enemies, dead in prison while still proclaiming his innocence. Thomas has spent his life learning never to act in haste, never to challenge the powerful without proof, never to let conviction outrun caution.
And then Lady Beatrice Vexley walked into his office, demanded justice, and ruined every careful boundary he had ever built.
Their partnership is meant to be brief. Strategic. Safe. He will pursue the case through proper channels. She will provide local knowledge and stay quietly out of danger.
Neither of them counted on what would happen when the case grew teeth.
When the brooch turned out to be a distraction, the widow, a coordinator, and the conspiracy reached into London itself. When the scandal sheets named Beatrice in print and her reputation began to crack. When Thomas offered her marriage as a shield, and discovered, halfway through the sentence, that he had meant it as something far more dangerous.
A clean, slow-burn Regency romance about a passionate heroine learning the strength of strategy, a careful hero remembering the courage of conviction, and the dangerous moment when a marriage of convenience becomes the only thing either of them wants.
No cliffhanger. Closed door. Guaranteed happily ever after.
Genre: Historical Romance
Lady Beatrice Vexley has never learned to hold her tongue when injustice unfolds before her. At twenty, she is the youngest Vexley sister, all passion and quick temper, the despair of her elder siblings and the delight of the village gossip.
So when a wealthy widow publicly accuses an innocent maid of theft in the middle of Merriton fair, Beatrice does what no respectable lady is meant to do. She steps forward. She raises her voice. She defends the powerless against the powerful, in front of half the county.
And she catches the eye of the one man who can either ruin her, or save her.
Captain Thomas Ellery, Magistrate of Merriton, is everything Beatrice is not. Controlled and measured. Bound by procedure as tightly as a soldier to his post. He believes in evidence, in patience, in the slow grinding of lawful justice.
He has reason to believe.
His own father was a magistrate too, destroyed by manufactured evidence and powerful enemies, dead in prison while still proclaiming his innocence. Thomas has spent his life learning never to act in haste, never to challenge the powerful without proof, never to let conviction outrun caution.
And then Lady Beatrice Vexley walked into his office, demanded justice, and ruined every careful boundary he had ever built.
Their partnership is meant to be brief. Strategic. Safe. He will pursue the case through proper channels. She will provide local knowledge and stay quietly out of danger.
Neither of them counted on what would happen when the case grew teeth.
When the brooch turned out to be a distraction, the widow, a coordinator, and the conspiracy reached into London itself. When the scandal sheets named Beatrice in print and her reputation began to crack. When Thomas offered her marriage as a shield, and discovered, halfway through the sentence, that he had meant it as something far more dangerous.
A clean, slow-burn Regency romance about a passionate heroine learning the strength of strategy, a careful hero remembering the courage of conviction, and the dangerous moment when a marriage of convenience becomes the only thing either of them wants.
No cliffhanger. Closed door. Guaranteed happily ever after.
Genre: Historical Romance
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