I’m not holding you to keep you from leaving. I’m holding you because it’s a way of showing you how precious you are to me.
The wait is over! The anticipated "Barefoot in Hyde Park" is now available! Book 2 in "The Hellion Club" series.
Lillian Burkhart could not be more different from her half-sister, Wilhelmina. Suspecting that she is more like their wastrel father, she struggles against the wildness inside her, trying desperately to be the proper young woman that Miss Euphemia Darrow has reared her to be. But when she’s discovered walking barefoot in Hyde Park by none other than the grandson of the elderly dowager duchess who employs her as a companion, her failure is complete.
Lord Valentine Somers, Viscount Seaburn, has been playing a part for so long that he no longer recognizes himself. As a soldier, he’d risked life and limb. Now, as a spy for Whitehall, he’s risking his very soul by using his skill with cards to gain entree to circles he wants no part of. Feigning the ennui of a debauched dilettante who treats women and money as if they were both in unending supply, he’s immediately struck by the beauty, vivacity and innocence of a lovely barefoot nymph… who happens to be his grandmother’s companion.
Given an ultimatum by his grandmother, marry or be disinherited, Val offers for Lillian on a whim. And she accepts in order to claim her own familial bequest. But theirs isn’t a normal engagement… not when someone keeps trying to murder his betrothed.
Uncertain if it has to do with Lillian’s inheritance, his own inheritance or the enemies he’s made over the years, Val knows he will do whatever it takes to protect her… but he didn’t expect to fall in love with her.
Barefoot in Hyde Park is book 2 in a Bestselling series titled The Hellion Club. Barefoot in Hyde Park is written by USA Today Best Selling author and Winner of the 2019 Romance Through the Ages Award for Georgian/Regency Romance, Chasity Bowlin and is the author of multiple bestselling historical romance novels, both independently and with Dragonblade Publishing.
Barefoot in Hyde Park currently has an Amazon review rank of 4.7 out of 5 stars and still holds a very high rank on Amazon since its publishing debut in January 2020 sitting at 65 in the Regency Historical Romance catagory and 3,692 overall on Amazon.
This is one book and series you do not want to miss being apart of!
Chapter One
The grass was cool beneath her bare feet and there was a hint of spring in the air about her, but that was only wishful thinking. Spring was still months away despite the unseasonable warmth of the day. But her mind wasn’t on the hedonistic pleasures of traipsing barefoot in the park, with the sun bright overhead, though that was precisely what she was doing in that moment. It wasn’t even on the fact that if she was caught behaving so recklessly, in a manner that was such an utter breech of decorum, she would no doubt be sacked from her very good position with her grace, the Dowager Duchess of Templeton. No, her mind was ensconced rather firmly on the conversations that had just taken place in the somewhat dingy and definitely very dirty office of a legal firm that appeared to have more dust than clients.
“Miss Burkhart, this is a sizable bequest,” the solicitor’s nasal drone replayed in her mind. One could accuse the poor man of being many things, but no one could ever accuse Robert Littleton, Esq. of being lively. The tiny little man, with his balding pate and frayed cuffs, had not appeared to be a very successful solicitor. But he had been rather kind to her, even in their short acquaintance.
“But only if I marry?” Her reply had been skeptical. It all sounded utterly impossible to her. But the solicitor had been rather insistent. Her mother’s aunt, a woman she’d never even heard of much less met—though given that her own mother had died when she was very, very young and she’d spent all of her life in one school or another where her father would not have to be bothered with her—had left her a fortune. But that fortune could only be claimed on the condition that she marry and not follow in her mother’s disgraceful footsteps.
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Translated by Ana Meneguetti
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