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A Merchant's Daughter
A merchant's daughter and a destitute nobleman. Can a marriage of convenience solve their problems?
Miss Emma Brentry is happy with life, but she feels the time has come to marry. Her father, a wealthy glass merchant, has expectations of grandchildren, and Emma doesn't wish to disappoint him. Reluctantly, and somewhat halfheartedly, she begins the search for a husband.
Mr. Aaron Trent, a gentleman of noble birth, returns to England fresh from the Napoleonic war with a scar and limp to prove it. During his absence, his estate, Windhurst Hall, has been pledged by his cousin at the gaming tables. He is now in search of the necessary funds with which to buy back his home.
Traveling to Bath, Emma finds herself stranded on the road and is compelled to stay the night at The Stag and Hounds posting inn. She encounters Aaron, an attentive, handsome stranger, who offers her some much-needed assistance. Instant attraction is felt by both, and as dusk falls, Emma makes Aaron an offer he finds difficult to refuse.
With his pride standing in the way, can Aaron stay true to his principles, or will he, with reckless, passionate abandonment, succumb to Emma's powers of persuasion?
Content Warning: contains explicit, sensual love scenes
Miss Emma Brentry is happy with life, but she feels the time has come to marry. Her father, a wealthy glass merchant, has expectations of grandchildren, and Emma doesn't wish to disappoint him. Reluctantly, and somewhat halfheartedly, she begins the search for a husband.
Mr. Aaron Trent, a gentleman of noble birth, returns to England fresh from the Napoleonic war with a scar and limp to prove it. During his absence, his estate, Windhurst Hall, has been pledged by his cousin at the gaming tables. He is now in search of the necessary funds with which to buy back his home.
Traveling to Bath, Emma finds herself stranded on the road and is compelled to stay the night at The Stag and Hounds posting inn. She encounters Aaron, an attentive, handsome stranger, who offers her some much-needed assistance. Instant attraction is felt by both, and as dusk falls, Emma makes Aaron an offer he finds difficult to refuse.
With his pride standing in the way, can Aaron stay true to his principles, or will he, with reckless, passionate abandonment, succumb to Emma's powers of persuasion?
Content Warning: contains explicit, sensual love scenes
115 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 22, 2019
2 people want to read
About the author
Arabella Sheen
20 books7 followersArabella Sheen is an author of Contemporary and Historical Romance. Shortlisted for the Joan Hessayon Award and a member of the Romantic Novelists' Association, she is published with Beachwalk Press and Evernight Publishing.
One of the many things Arabella loves to do is to read, and when she's not reading or writing romantic novels she is either on her allotment sowing and planting with the seasons, or she is pandering to the demands of her attention seeking moggy.
Having worked and lived in the city of Amsterdam in the Netherlands for nearly twenty years, she now lives in the southwest of England with her family.
Arabella keeps in touch with her readers on:
Website: www.arabellasheen.co.uk
Twitter: www.twitter.com/ArabellaSheen
Facebook:
www.facebook.com/ArabellaSheenAuthor/
One of the many things Arabella loves to do is to read, and when she's not reading or writing romantic novels she is either on her allotment sowing and planting with the seasons, or she is pandering to the demands of her attention seeking moggy.
Having worked and lived in the city of Amsterdam in the Netherlands for nearly twenty years, she now lives in the southwest of England with her family.
Arabella keeps in touch with her readers on:
Website: www.arabellasheen.co.uk
Twitter: www.twitter.com/ArabellaSheen
Facebook:
www.facebook.com/ArabellaSheenAuthor/
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September 24, 2019
This historical regency romance with sensual overtures involves a wealthy merchant's daughter being pressed to marry by her father to an undesirable older Lord. However, by chance when her carriage breaks down, she comes across an injured but handsome son of a lord who fought Napoleon at a wayside inn. At that point, she realizes he needs money to pay off the debts of his estate which his cousin in trust squandered while he was at war, and she needs a husband. Suddenly turning seductress, unlike most Recency novels, it becomes mostly a quest for time alone together. Needless to say, the novel with a lovely cover maintains one's interest despite a relatively simple plot. Definitely not for the prudish or those seeking to read outside this sensual genre.
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