The Lady of Thornbourne: A Sweet Christian Regency Romance

She has run his estate for two years. He doesn’t even know her name.

When the old Earl of Thornburne dies, the whole valley waits to see what the new master will do — and no one waits more anxiously than Susannah Ashby. Since her father was struck down, Susannah has quietly kept the great Somerset estate running herself, in his name, hiding the truth from a world that would never let a woman hold the reins. One stroke of a new lord’s pen could turn her whole family out into the lane.

Gideon Calvert, a sharp London barrister, never wanted an earldom. He rides down to Thornbourne meaning to sign a few papers and go home again — until a mud-spattered young woman on her knees in the stable-yard tells him his own business to his face, and he finds he cannot get her out of his head.

He could dismiss her. He could ruin her. Instead, day by day, riding the bounds of a land he is only beginning to love, the cold clever earl starts to change — and the guarded woman who has trusted no one in two long years begins, against all her better judgement, to hope.

But a covetous magistrate wants their valley, a hard winter is closing in, and the old river is rising behind a sluice that will not hold. Before the Christmas bells ring, Susannah and Gideon must face a flood, a reckoning, and a choice between everything they have guarded and everything they have never dared to want.

A tender, clean enemies-to-lovers Regency romance of hard-won trust, quiet faith, and the mercy that turns a whole valley’s heart.