He had not asked for the estate.
He had not asked for the walls or the debts or the household full of people who had served a dead man and were not yet certain what they owed a living one. Maeric had spent twenty years being the most useful man in someone else's story, and he had been content with that — had, in fact, preferred it, because a man without his own estate had no obligation to stay in one place, and staying in one place was the one thing Maeric had always known better than to do.
Then he met the woman who knew where everything was.
She was Varrowmere's daughter — illegitimate, unsanctioned, kept at the margins of a household that had never quite decided what to do with her — and she had survived it by making herself indispensable and invisible in equal measure. She knew the estate's accounts and its tenants and its debts and its secrets, and she had no intention of sharing any of them with a man she did not trust.
She did not trust men.
He had never intended to stay.
Neither of them had a plan for what happened next.
Genre: Historical Romance
He had not asked for the walls or the debts or the household full of people who had served a dead man and were not yet certain what they owed a living one. Maeric had spent twenty years being the most useful man in someone else's story, and he had been content with that — had, in fact, preferred it, because a man without his own estate had no obligation to stay in one place, and staying in one place was the one thing Maeric had always known better than to do.
Then he met the woman who knew where everything was.
She was Varrowmere's daughter — illegitimate, unsanctioned, kept at the margins of a household that had never quite decided what to do with her — and she had survived it by making herself indispensable and invisible in equal measure. She knew the estate's accounts and its tenants and its debts and its secrets, and she had no intention of sharing any of them with a man she did not trust.
She did not trust men.
He had never intended to stay.
Neither of them had a plan for what happened next.
Genre: Historical Romance