The Baron and the Bookseller
(2024)(The fourth book in the Sweet Daughters of Duke Street series)
A novel by Susanne Bellamy
In a time when a family's reputation and social standing decided one’s fate, starting life as an orphan was a difficult social obstacle to overcome. Never fear, the sons and daughters of the Duke Street Orphanage love a challenge. They won’t let their inauspicious origins hold them back from finding their calling in life and discovering lasting love.
The Sweet Daughters of Duke Street is an emotionally satisfying series of romance novellas to entertain and delight. Each can be read as a stand-alone romance in any order.
Miss Matilda Bothwell is the ward of the Duke of Helmsford, one of a number of dukes who have patronised the Duke Street orphanage in London since 1800.
Being the Duke's ward gives Matilda some respectability, and she might even be able to marry a gentleman since the book-loving Duke has provided her with a decent dowry – a bookshop in a respectable area of London. But Tilly enjoys the independence of making her own decisions, and a husband would strip her of all choice. Although … given the recent spate of crimes in Chelsea, a man in the shop might be useful.
James Joseph Bannister, seventh Baron of Ashford, believes Robert Peel’s newly established police force will be the answer to London’s wave of crime. Solving a rash of outrageous and increasingly violent break-ins in Chelsea is the challenge he needs to prove his worth to the Home Secretary, Robert Peel, and earn a place in his department.
Jack goes undercover as a clerk in Tilly’s bookshop, selling books by day and seeking thieves by night. But will Tilly, the prickly and decidedly distracting owner, fire him or steal his heart before he uncovers the gang of thieves?
Genre: Historical Romance
The Sweet Daughters of Duke Street is an emotionally satisfying series of romance novellas to entertain and delight. Each can be read as a stand-alone romance in any order.
Miss Matilda Bothwell is the ward of the Duke of Helmsford, one of a number of dukes who have patronised the Duke Street orphanage in London since 1800.
Being the Duke's ward gives Matilda some respectability, and she might even be able to marry a gentleman since the book-loving Duke has provided her with a decent dowry – a bookshop in a respectable area of London. But Tilly enjoys the independence of making her own decisions, and a husband would strip her of all choice. Although … given the recent spate of crimes in Chelsea, a man in the shop might be useful.
James Joseph Bannister, seventh Baron of Ashford, believes Robert Peel’s newly established police force will be the answer to London’s wave of crime. Solving a rash of outrageous and increasingly violent break-ins in Chelsea is the challenge he needs to prove his worth to the Home Secretary, Robert Peel, and earn a place in his department.
Jack goes undercover as a clerk in Tilly’s bookshop, selling books by day and seeking thieves by night. But will Tilly, the prickly and decidedly distracting owner, fire him or steal his heart before he uncovers the gang of thieves?
Genre: Historical Romance