Eliza Southwell
As an actress with no family and nothing to lose, I leap at the chance of a new part—only it’s not on the stage. Out of money and work, I take the role of a wealthy young widow’s companion as she travels to England to assume control of her husband’s estate and meet his family for the first time. Once she’s settled, I’ll head to London, where fame surely awaits.
I didn’t expect her to die on the second day at sea!
When I have an idea, I act on it—even though I may come to regret it later. It’s a simple matter to swap our passports and put on her fine clothes, then tell the ship’s steward that it was my poor lady’s maid who passed away.
But when I see the grand estate of Fernwood and meet my “sister-in-law”, I find my dreams of London stardom melting away. Franny is the sister I’ve always longed for. Rupert Denton, God rest his noble soul, sounds like a man I would have easily fallen in love with. I finally feel like I have a home and a family, and as his “widow,” I’m the only one who can protect Fernwood and its inhabitants from the vultures that are circling it.
I believe I���ll be content to play the role of Mrs. Rupert Denton for the rest of my life.
Rupert Denton
I was only married a week before I left my rich and well-connected new wife for Canada��and I was pleased to do so. I married hastily to prove a point to my ailing father. Now he’s dead and gone, and I’m saddled with a woman I don’t love—or even like.
When my ship sank and most of the crew and passengers were lost, I was reported among the dead—something I didn’t know until over a month later when I was fully recovered. When I think of my poor sister suffering and my “widow” having the free run of my accounts, I waste no time returning to England.
Imagine my surprise when the young woman who faints into my arms is not the cold, refined woman I married, but a rather endearing beauty with a ready smile and genuine warmth in her eyes.
This isn’t the woman I married—but she may well be the wife I need as the capable mistress of Fernwood and the jewel on my arm to show those who doubt me that I’m ready to lead.
If only I can convince her to stay in this business arrangement when it’s clear that it’s becoming so much more…
Fernwood is a clean historical romance standalone in the Noble Hearts series.
You don’t have to have money and lands to have a noble heart, as these stories of historical romance will prove. Find love in unexpected places and situations across time with the Noble Hearts series.
Genre: Historical
As an actress with no family and nothing to lose, I leap at the chance of a new part—only it’s not on the stage. Out of money and work, I take the role of a wealthy young widow’s companion as she travels to England to assume control of her husband’s estate and meet his family for the first time. Once she’s settled, I’ll head to London, where fame surely awaits.
I didn’t expect her to die on the second day at sea!
When I have an idea, I act on it—even though I may come to regret it later. It’s a simple matter to swap our passports and put on her fine clothes, then tell the ship’s steward that it was my poor lady’s maid who passed away.
But when I see the grand estate of Fernwood and meet my “sister-in-law”, I find my dreams of London stardom melting away. Franny is the sister I’ve always longed for. Rupert Denton, God rest his noble soul, sounds like a man I would have easily fallen in love with. I finally feel like I have a home and a family, and as his “widow,” I’m the only one who can protect Fernwood and its inhabitants from the vultures that are circling it.
I believe I���ll be content to play the role of Mrs. Rupert Denton for the rest of my life.
Rupert Denton
I was only married a week before I left my rich and well-connected new wife for Canada��and I was pleased to do so. I married hastily to prove a point to my ailing father. Now he’s dead and gone, and I’m saddled with a woman I don’t love—or even like.
When my ship sank and most of the crew and passengers were lost, I was reported among the dead—something I didn’t know until over a month later when I was fully recovered. When I think of my poor sister suffering and my “widow” having the free run of my accounts, I waste no time returning to England.
Imagine my surprise when the young woman who faints into my arms is not the cold, refined woman I married, but a rather endearing beauty with a ready smile and genuine warmth in her eyes.
This isn’t the woman I married—but she may well be the wife I need as the capable mistress of Fernwood and the jewel on my arm to show those who doubt me that I’m ready to lead.
If only I can convince her to stay in this business arrangement when it’s clear that it’s becoming so much more…
Fernwood is a clean historical romance standalone in the Noble Hearts series.
You don’t have to have money and lands to have a noble heart, as these stories of historical romance will prove. Find love in unexpected places and situations across time with the Noble Hearts series.
Genre: Historical