A wedding, a button, and the first man who has ever answered the actual question.
Lady Sophia Fairfax has spent seventeen years being useful. As the Earl of Waverley’s sister, she managed the household accounts Alexander never quite noticed were being managed, kept things running below the level anyone thought to look, and learned, by careful observation, to tell the difference between a sociable laugh and a real one.
She knows this about herself. She has written it in a list.
What she also knows—and has been thinking about since June—is that she was fooled. Not badly, and not for long, but it happened: a man spoke to her as though her thoughts were the point, and she mistook the attention for genuine interest rather than the categorisation it turned out to be. She has dealt with the romantic betrayal. She is working on the other part.
Nicholas Alderton came to Alexander’s wedding because Alexander asked him. He is twenty-six, a farmer, and the sort of man who says I don’t know when he doesn’t know and answers the actual question rather than the one that would make him appear more informed. He noticed Sophia in the front row; at the moment, she chose not to cry and beamed instead, filing the observation alongside several others.
They have been neighbours forever, and now that Alexander has married, Sophia is a guest at Waverley. They disagree about kitchen garden mulching. They agree about Byron.
Entirely Yours is the first book in The Waverley Novels, a new Regency romance series featuring characters from The Ashford Chronicles. It is funny, warm, and deeply felt—a love story about two people who notice things and who, slowly and carefully, begin to notice each other.
Genre: Historical Romance
Lady Sophia Fairfax has spent seventeen years being useful. As the Earl of Waverley’s sister, she managed the household accounts Alexander never quite noticed were being managed, kept things running below the level anyone thought to look, and learned, by careful observation, to tell the difference between a sociable laugh and a real one.
She knows this about herself. She has written it in a list.
What she also knows—and has been thinking about since June—is that she was fooled. Not badly, and not for long, but it happened: a man spoke to her as though her thoughts were the point, and she mistook the attention for genuine interest rather than the categorisation it turned out to be. She has dealt with the romantic betrayal. She is working on the other part.
Nicholas Alderton came to Alexander’s wedding because Alexander asked him. He is twenty-six, a farmer, and the sort of man who says I don’t know when he doesn’t know and answers the actual question rather than the one that would make him appear more informed. He noticed Sophia in the front row; at the moment, she chose not to cry and beamed instead, filing the observation alongside several others.
They have been neighbours forever, and now that Alexander has married, Sophia is a guest at Waverley. They disagree about kitchen garden mulching. They agree about Byron.
Entirely Yours is the first book in The Waverley Novels, a new Regency romance series featuring characters from The Ashford Chronicles. It is funny, warm, and deeply felt—a love story about two people who notice things and who, slowly and carefully, begin to notice each other.
Genre: Historical Romance
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