Lord Hartwell’s Refuge

Name: Lord Hartwell’s Refuge
Author: Sally Britton

by Sally Britton

Genre: Romance Historical

133 pages

Tamsin Mayweather has never once been asked what she wants.
Lord Hartwell has never believed happiness was his to have.

As the eldest daughter in a household stretched thin by a growing family and a distracted father, Tamsin Mayweather has spent her life being useful to her family, as a governess, nursemaid, peacekeeper, and everything but a priority. When Lord Hartwell offers his hand, it isn’t romance he proposes. It’s a solution: a title, a household, stability for her siblings, and freedom from a stepmother who values her only for what she provides. Tamsin knows better than to hope for more. Usefulness, at least, is something she understands.

Roman Eastwood, Baron Hartwell, has built a life on being reliable. He is a man who solves problems, steadies his family, and never asks for anything beyond what duty requires. A wife of good sense, in a marriage of convenience, is simply the next responsible decision. He doesn’t expect to want more than that. He certainly doesn’t expect his new quiet, practical wife to be the one who teaches him he’s allowed to.

But a marriage built on practicality soon becomes something neither of them planned for. As Tamsin learns what it is to be chosen rather than needed, and Roman discovers that love is necessary to his life, an old political rivalry threatens to unravel everything Roman has spent his life protecting. It forces them both to decide whether safety was ever really the point.

A gentle historical romance about learning to be loved rather than merely needed, Lord Hartwell’s Refuge continues the Gentlemen of York series, and readers of Mr. Eastwood’s Match and the Clairvoir Castle Romances will find plenty of familiar faces waiting in York.

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