A Duchess of Mystery - Reid, Fil
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An emotionally damaged widow with a dark secret falls for a rough diamond of a soldier. Beautiful Isabella Hope was married ten years ago at eighteen to Marcus, the spoiled and spiteful young Duke of Stourbridge. When her beloved father died shortly afterwards, Isabella inherited his wealth, which Marcus took control of. Marcus turns out to be a cruel husband and a serial adulterer, continually flaunting his mistresses. He holds it against Isabella that she hasn't given him the heir he needs, and when he dies in mysterious circumstances, his title and estate pass to the cousin he bullied when…mehr

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An emotionally damaged widow with a dark secret falls for a rough diamond of a soldier. Beautiful Isabella Hope was married ten years ago at eighteen to Marcus, the spoiled and spiteful young Duke of Stourbridge. When her beloved father died shortly afterwards, Isabella inherited his wealth, which Marcus took control of. Marcus turns out to be a cruel husband and a serial adulterer, continually flaunting his mistresses. He holds it against Isabella that she hasn't given him the heir he needs, and when he dies in mysterious circumstances, his title and estate pass to the cousin he bullied when they were children. Captain Richard Carstairs, Marcus's long-estranged cousin, is a rough diamond of a man who's been off soldiering since he was a boy. Eventually, Richard receives news of his inheritance and returns from the peninsula to claim his title and property. He discovers he has a sitting tenant at his country estate - the previous duke's enticing widow. A widow who might be guarding a terrifying secret. Richard decides to marry in a hurry and get himself an heir so he can return to what he loves best - soldiering. To this end, he asks Isabella to find him a suitable bride, and in so doing, he discovers that she is the woman for him. But the possibility arises that Isabella knows more than she's letting on about how her husband died... then Richard must use all his wits in a race to save the woman he's come to love. Tropes/themes you'll love: ¿ Emotionally damaged widow ¿ Grumpy / stoic hero ¿ Enemies to lovers (slow-burn tension) ¿ Forced proximity / living under the same roof ¿ Dark secret / hidden past ¿ Redemption arc ¿ Opposites attract ¿ Rough-around-the-edges hero ¿ Healing through love ¿ Suspense / mystery element
Autorenporträt
Fil Reid lives four miles from the sea in Cornwall with her husband and a rescue dog from Romania called Bella. Her books have been published by Dragonblade in the US since she won their Write Stuff competition. Her first six books comprise the Guinevere series - an innovative retelling of the Arthurian legend from the point of view of a modern origin Guinevere. Her short stories have been shortlisted in several competitions and won a few prizes. She has a new series set in Cornwall coming out this year, starting with The Cornish Mermaid.Apart from writing, the great love of her life has always been horses, and when she was younger she worked with them for a number of years - on the stud attached to Highclere Castle (where Downton Abbey was filmed), as a stable girl in a flat racing yard (when she was young, brave and thin), and in a riding school. She also ran her own riding school when her children were small.She speaks fluent French after having lived there for ten years, after which she lived on a widebeam canal boat before her move to Cornwall. One of the things she loves to do is to visit the sites she uses in her stories. However, she has acrophobia, a morbid fear of heights, so one or two places are out of reach to her. Too scary!She's been fascinated by all things Arthurian since she was a small child and saw the Disney film The Sword in the Stone, but didn't find out until she was an adult that she has Asperger's Syndrome (as do two of her sons). She now believes her ASD accounts for her obsessions with both horses and King Arthur.