The first book in The Reluctant Grooms Series...
Someone is trying to kill Lady
Penelope Leighton’s father, and now the fiend has turned his sights on her.
Frightened, she flees London
masquerading as a traveling companion for her elderly aunt.
When William Smith, the Earl of
Westerly, arrives in London
to a hero’s welcome he does not want, he takes the stewardship at his cousin’s
manor in Wakefield-by-the-Sea to escape. He is more than surprised when he
meets the mysterious Miss Penny Higgins residing there with a persnickety
duchess.
Miss Higgins’ unfathomable beauty
and stunning intellect are in direct contrast to her dowdy clothes and
recurring stutter. William discerns the ladies are in trouble, it’s obvious
they are in hiding, and William means to find out why, but no one is talking.
Before either of them realizes
it, they’ve lost their hearts – Penny to a man who she thinks is a steward, and
William to a woman destined for a duke.
After Penny’s true identity and
reason for hiding are revealed to William, he immediately engages his friends in
a campaign to help catch the blackguard who threatens her. However, upon their
return to London ,
a confounding chain of events leads them right into the villain’s trap. Can
William save her before it’s too late?
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I love your heading graphic!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much, Helen. A friend of mine made it for me.
ReplyDeleteThank you for taking part, Anne.
ReplyDeleteOooh these dastardly Regency baddies do get about causing nothing but trouble, heartache and fear. But, ha ha, there's always a dashing hero just waiting to show us that all will be well, eventually... Penny keeps turning up. I love the same characters popping in and out of novels.
After the book fests are done I'm stepping back from social networking on a daily basis and switching to a weekly schedule. ;) Hence more reading and writing and the added luxury of leisure time.
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I love historical romance that includes intrigue as well.
ReplyDeleteA beautiful looking blog, and an exciting sounding plot. Nice to visit and see what other writers are doing.
ReplyDeleteAnne, thanks for the summary of this book, Regency is not a period I have read much of previously
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