A dead woman’s wish. A watched widow. A truth worth a fortune to bury.

Harriet, Lady Colbourne, buried her husband and was turned out of his house inside a fortnight. The one kindness left to her — a generous bequest from the late Lady Warrington, a woman she scarcely knew — is held fast behind a condition no one will explain. And from the day she first calls upon the solicitors, Harriet cannot shake the feeling that she is being watched. Someone does not mean for her to have what is rightfully hers.

Benedict, Duke of Blackwood, intends to marry no one this Season — until his formidable aunt reaches out from beyond the grave. Lady Warrington left him more than a memory: she left a letter charging him to stand at Lady Colbourne’s side and see her safely through whatever was coming. She was never careless in her life, and Benedict cannot believe she chose him without a reason. He expects a tiresome duty. He finds a widow who will not be managed — frightened and unbowed at once — and a danger closing around her that neither of them yet understands.

The nearer they come to the truth behind Lady Warrington’s design, the clearer it grows that someone will risk a great deal to keep it buried — and that Harriet has more to lose than a fortune. Can she trust the man her benefactress chose to guard her? And dare a woman who has only ever been protected learn, at last, to stand beside him?

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All my love,

Rose

A Promise of Protection: A Regency Romance (The Warrington Bequests Book 3)

The finest house in London. An enemy who won’t sign their name. A love worth more than either.

Miss Viola Trent has spent her life counting candles in her father’s quiet, threadbare house — and expecting nothing more. So when the formidable Lady Warrington, a woman she met but twice, leaves her twenty thousand pounds and the celebrated Stoneleigh House, Viola is left holding a fortune she cannot explain and a letter that urges only courage. All of London wants to know what she did to earn it. Someone wants more than answers: anonymous notes begin to arrive, each one pressing her to give up the house — or be ruined.

The Marquess of Carrington was raised expecting Stoneleigh would one day be his. Lady Warrington was deliberate in all things, and Julian cannot accept that she would hand his inheritance to a stranger without reason. Resolved to understand his cousin’s design, he offers to help Miss Trent uncover the truth — and finds, instead of the schemer he expected, a woman whose quiet courage unsettles everything he thought he wanted.

But the trail of Lady Warrington’s kindness leads somewhere darker than either of them imagined. Help that never arrived. Letters that never reached their mark. Year after year of a dead woman’s charity, quietly turned aside by a hand no one thought to suspect. Every answer uncovers another lie, and the closer Viola and Julian come to the truth, the nearer it strikes to Julian’s own name.

Will they finish what Lady Warrington began? Or will the truth cost him his family’s honor — and his heart?

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All my love,

Rose

A Matter of Honor: A Regency Romance (The Warrington Bequests Book 2)