No Dowry, No Doubt

Miss Eleanor Ashcombe has no dowry, no prospects, and no patience for either. When her father dies, leaving her at the mercy of a cousin who sees her as a bargaining chip, Eleanor takes the only post she can secure: companion to the formidable Dowager Countess of Wrenfield. It is meant to be a quiet retreat from the marriage mart. It becomes anything but. Captain Nathaniel Wrenfield came home from the Peninsula with a shattered knee and a promise to his dying colonel. He did not come home looking for a wife — least of all a penniless one his grandmother has schemed into his path. But as Eleanor and Nathaniel spar over books, muddy lanes, and a harvest neither of them expected to care about, they discover that a woman with nothing to bring to a marriage and a man with nothing left to prove may be the only two people in Yorkshire who can give each other everything. A clean Regency romance of second chances, found family, and the courage to be loved without a settlement.