His Unsuitable Bride

Six years ago Marianne Fairhurst left her own engagement party without a word. She has been a housekeeper in Scotland ever since, and she has not looked back. Now her cousin is dead, the estate is in a stranger's hands, and the new heir arrives out of the rain. It is Charles Ruthven. The man she left. Charles came north expecting accounts and a roof in need of repair. He did not expect the woman who vanished from his life to be keeping his cellar keys. He has never understood why she went, and Marianne has no intention of telling him. But a broken tenant roof, a contested will, and one unopened letter will drag six years of silence into the light. A regency romance of reunion and second chances, set in a cold Scottish house where two people finally say the thing they should have said at a party, long ago.