Through mutual pride and circumstance, the Baroness of Hartbury has never met her neighbour, their families at odds for generations. Yet when threatened once more by the cruel man who ruined her mother and tore her world apart, Lady Virginia comes to the reclusive Mr Tresham to make a most unlikely offer.
Solitude, silence, and accommodating servants: Richard has all he needs to heal after a harrowing tour of duty and his subsequent collapse. What he does not need is a wife, and certainly not one as relentlessly charming as his neighbour, the Baroness of Hartbury. But ignoring a lady’s calling cards is much easier than ignoring the lady herself, when she turns to him for protection from an enemy he knows all too well.
An adventurous Victorian-era romance about a lady, a liar, and the only man alive who knows the truth.
Will Forrest (they/he) is a transmasc nonbinary author, poet, and general nuisance who writes happy ever afters for disaster queers. Gen X/Millennial cusp, AuDHD genre gremlin. Serving up big dollops of Found Family with a side of Finding Your True Home, disability rep, tenderness, adventure, and every kind of spice from first kisses to five alarm fires.
Will grew up on a steady diet of Douglas Adams and classic ’90s bodice rippers, and has a diploma of fashion design, a degree in social theory, and a bad habit of changing careers, life goals, and continents. Currently they live in a very warm part of Canada with three lovely humans and a succession of martyred houseplants.
