One illicit note should have been the end of it.
Instead, for Ella Marston, Countess of Barcombe, it is only the beginning.
For, one night in London, a stolen moment in a shadowed passage leads to a touch that should never have happened — and a note that should never have been written. A note she cannot wish away, even so.
Then, at her great-aunt’s midsummer house party in Derbyshire, every glance feels dangerous, every conversation watched, and every hour in Gregor Whitchurch, Earl of Tralford’s company leaves her more certain of one thing: he is a man she ought to avoid. He is too observant, too controlled, and far too skilled at making silence feel intimate.
Yet the notes continue.
Hidden beneath the glittering order of house-party pleasures — archery on the lawn, riding parties, music at dusk, long evenings in lamplit drawing rooms — a secret understanding grows between them.
Then come the private meetings. The stolen kisses. The moments that cannot be undone.
Ella knows exactly how much a woman may lose by trusting the wrong man.
Gregor knows exactly how dangerous it is to want a woman who has every reason to doubt him.
But in a summer built on secrecy, longing, and risk, one final surprise may force them to speak the truth at last.
Unless they ruin everything first.
Genre: Historical Romance
Instead, for Ella Marston, Countess of Barcombe, it is only the beginning.
For, one night in London, a stolen moment in a shadowed passage leads to a touch that should never have happened — and a note that should never have been written. A note she cannot wish away, even so.
Then, at her great-aunt’s midsummer house party in Derbyshire, every glance feels dangerous, every conversation watched, and every hour in Gregor Whitchurch, Earl of Tralford’s company leaves her more certain of one thing: he is a man she ought to avoid. He is too observant, too controlled, and far too skilled at making silence feel intimate.
Yet the notes continue.
Hidden beneath the glittering order of house-party pleasures — archery on the lawn, riding parties, music at dusk, long evenings in lamplit drawing rooms — a secret understanding grows between them.
Then come the private meetings. The stolen kisses. The moments that cannot be undone.
Ella knows exactly how much a woman may lose by trusting the wrong man.
Gregor knows exactly how dangerous it is to want a woman who has every reason to doubt him.
But in a summer built on secrecy, longing, and risk, one final surprise may force them to speak the truth at last.
Unless they ruin everything first.
Genre: Historical Romance