Three captivating historical romances set against backdrops of intrigue and danger in Victorian England with heroes, heroines, and thrill-filled pacing certain to leave you breathless.
Mist of Midnight: A Novel of Victorian Romantic Suspense
Daughters of Hampshire, Book 1
What will be revealed when the fog clears?
Rebecca Ravenshaw, daughter of missionaries, spent most of her life in India. Following the death of her family in the Indian Uprising of 1857, Rebecca returns to claim her family estate in Hampshire, England. People are surprised to see her...and highly suspicious. Less than a year earlier, an imposter had arrived with an Indian servant and assumed not only Rebecca’s name but also her home and income.
That pretender died within months of her appearance and was hastily buried at midnight. The locals believe that perhaps she, Rebecca, is the real imposter. Her home and her father’s investments reverted to a distant relative, the darkly charming Captain Luke Whitfield, who quickly took over.
Against her best intentions, Rebecca falls in love with Whitfield, forcing her to question his motives—does he want her or Headbourne House? If Luke is simply after the property, as everyone suspects, she may suffer a similar fate as the first “Rebecca.”
A captivating romance set against a backdrop of intrigue and danger, Mist of Midnight will leave you breathless.
~ Potentially sensitive content ~
Discussion around self-harm and suicide.
Bride of a Distant Isle: A Novel of Victorian Romantic Suspense
Daughters of Hampshire, Book 2
She has everything to gain and everything to lose, including her life.
Miss Annabel Ashton, a teacher at the Victorian-era Rogers School for Young Ladies, leaves to visit her family home, Highcliffe Hall at Milford-on-Sea. She believes her stay will be short but soon learns that she will not return to the safety of the school. Instead, she remains at Highcliffe, at the mercy of her cousin, Edward Everedge.
Annabel protests, but as the illegitimate daughter of a woman who died in an insane asylum, she has little agency. Running out of money, Edward puts Highcliffe for sale to avoid financial ruin. He insists that Annabel marry, promising her to a sinister, frightening man. But as the house gets packed, it begins to reveal disquieting secrets. Jewelry, artifacts, and portraits mysteriously appear, suggesting that Annabel may be the true heir of Highcliffe.
She has only a few months to prove her legitimacy, perhaps with assistance from the handsome but troubled Maltese Captain Dell’Acqua, who may not have Annabel’s best interests at heart after all.
And then, a final, most ominous barrier to her inheritance and her existence appears: a situation neither she nor anyone else could have expected. Will Annabel regain her life and property—and trust her heart—before it’s too late?
A Lady in Disguise: A Novel of Victorian Romantic Suspense
Daughters of Hampshire, Book 3
“For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not
be known.” Luke 12:2
After her father’s mysterious death, Miss Gillian Young takes a new job as the principal costume designer at the renowned Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. But while she remembers her father as a kind, well-respected man of the Police Force, clues she uncovers indicate he’d been living a double life: a haunting photograph of a young woman; train stubs for secret trips just before his death; and a receipt for a large sum of money. Are these items evidence of her father’s guilty secrets? His longtime police partner thinks so.
Then Gillian meets the dashing Viscount Thomas Lockwood. Their attraction is instant and inescapable. As their romantic involvement grows, Gillian begins to suspect even Lockwood’s motives. What should she make of her friend’s suggestion that Lockwood or men like him were involved in the murder of her father?
Soon, Gillian is convinced that her father has left evidence somewhere proving his innocence and revealing the guilty party. The closer she comes to uncovering it, the more menacing her opposition grows. Gillian takes on an ingenious disguise and takes on the role of a lifetime to reveal the true killer—before it’s too late for both her and those she loves.
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