Bridgerton goes Gothic in this sweeping Regency romance by celebrated author KJ Charles.
Major Rufus d’Aumesty has unexpectedly become the Earl of Oxney, master of a remote Norman manor on the edge of the infamous Romney Marsh. There he is beset on all sides, his position contested both by his greedy uncle and by Luke Doomsday, son of a notorious smuggling clan.
The earl and the smuggler should be natural enemies, but cocksure, enragingly competent Luke is a trained secretary and expert schemer―exactly the sort of man Rufus needs by his side. Before long, Luke becomes an unexpected ally—and the lover Rufus had never hoped to find.
But Luke came to Stone Manor with an ulterior motive, one he is desperate to keep hidden, even from the lord he can’t resist. As the lies accumulate and family secrets threaten to destroy everything they hold dear, master and man find themselves forced to decide whose side they’re really on—and what they’re willing to do for love.
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“Charles’s swashbuckling second Doomsday Books romance enthralls as it transports readers back to the moors of nineteenth-century Kent…[where] there’s plenty of family drama, scheming, and secrecy to complicate the lovers’ path forward.”
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Publishers Weekly (starred review)