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A Secret Engagement: An Edwardian romance from The Wild Rose Press and multi-published author Sarah Richmond.
  Edmund Caruthers, London barrister and gentleman, defies his father and his class to represent the poor. With few paying customers and cut off from his inheritance, he struggles financially. He’s frustrated his betrothed, the lovely Dolly Wycliffe, won’t set a date to marry him.     Dolly dreams of becoming a famous milliner. She loves Edmund, but the life of a society matron isn’t for her. Edmund’s family and friends remind her a girl who makes hats can’t become the wife of a distinguished barrister.      When a woman is found murdered in fashionable Mayfair, their two worlds collide. The victim is a shop girl and Dolly enlists Edmund’s help to find a killer. Edmund keeps a friend’s involvement a secret and Dolly realizes the toffs have rules they’re unwilling to break.         Now Dolly must decide if their love is enough to overcome the obstacles ahead or if marrying Edmund will be a decision they’ll both come to regret?      

 

    Bold As Brass: Women with an Attitude     A shop girl engages the services of an up-and-coming barrister to find out what caused the explosion aboard the ferry that killed her father.

           

             London barrister Edmund Caruthers’s ambition is to wear the silks of a King’s Counsel. Born into privilege, he loves to gamble with the old money heirs at his club.

            A milliner’s apprentice, Dolly Wycliffe pursues her dream to make fashionable ladies’ hats. She engages Edmund’s help to sue a powerful English lord for the wrongful death of her father who’d been in the lordship’s employ.

            Edmund obliges, especially with a sizable wager at stake. His friends have bet against him, believing he won’t be able to wrestle a shilling out of the titled gentleman, especially with a shop-girl as a client.

            Dolly and Edmund discover her father’s death wasn’t an accident and defy tradition to find out the truth.  

            As their mutual attraction grows stronger, they become aware more than her wide-brimmed hats keep them apart. 

 

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         Cover Art by Dar Albert