Never marry for love, Hestia. Love only works in fairy tales.” This was the sage advice that Hestia Stockbow’s mother, Georgina, imparted to her almost daily, for the whole of her childhood. “Love won’t heat your home,” Georgina would grumble mid-winter, when a damp chill permeated their small, stone cottage on the Cornish coast. “Or […]
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The Duke of Ruin – Claudia Stone
London had been sweltering under an unforgivable heatwave since the middle of May. In elegantly appointed ballrooms across the capital, women stood perspiring delicately, whilst cooling themselves with folding fans, which had undergone a sudden resurgence in popularity. The menfolk fared less well, as fans were a female contraption, and red faced males were seen […]
The Duke’s Bride in Disguise – Claudia Stone
The Captain of Betrayal – Claudia Stone
Tamed By a Duke – Claudia Stone
Brandon Michael Drew was born into a family that had, for at least two centuries, been on the rise — financially speaking at least. The beginning of the family’s ascendancy into wealth had begun in Holland, during the Dutch Golden Age, when Brandon’s great-great-grandfather—a shoemaker by trade—had made his fortune by cashing in on the […]