Samhain Publishing continues their summer freebie reading selections with
Yorkshire, by Lynne Connolly. This is volume one of her
Richard and Rose series. Most of Connolly's books are on the erotica side of romance, so I would not be surprised if this one is as well (although the book's description and warning are on the tame side).
Book Description
Rose Golightly is a country girl who thinks her life will continue on its comfortable course, but a series of events changes that for good. On a visit to the ancestral estate of Hareton Abbey, Richard Kerre, Lord Strang, enters her life. A leader of society, a man known for extravagance in dress and life, Richard is her fate. And she is his.
Richard is to marry a rich, frigid woman in a few weeks, and has deliberately closed his heart to love. Then a coach accident throws his wounded body into Rose's arms.
With one kiss, Richard and Rose discover in each other the passion they thought they'd never find.
But the accident that brought them together was an act of sabotage. Somewhere, in the rotting hulk of a once beautiful stately home, a murderer is hiding.
Richard and Rose set out to solve the mystery, and find the layers of scandal go deeper than simply determining who is guilty. And that doing the right thing could separate them forever.
Warning: This series is addictive. Passion and murder are a potent mix.