The Earl’s Reluctant Bride
Book One of The Daughters of Rosewood HallWhen Rosewood Hall faces ruin, Miss Eleanor Ashcroft is prepared to sacrifice everything to save the family she loves.
Following her father’s death, Eleanor discovers that generations of security have been built upon fragile foundations. With creditors circling and her mother and five younger sisters depending upon her, the future of Rosewood Hall hangs by a thread. Her only hope arrives in the form of an unexpected proposal from Julian Hawthorne, Earl of Blackmoor.
Julian offers no grand declarations of love, no romantic promises, and no passionate courtship. Instead, he proposes a practical marriage—one that will secure both their futures and save Rosewood Hall from disaster.
Determined to fulfil her duty, Eleanor accepts.
But life at Blackmoor House proves more complicated than either of them anticipated. Haunted by the memory of his late wife, Julian keeps his heart carefully guarded, while Eleanor struggles to ignore the growing feelings she never intended to develop for the husband she barely knows.
As friendship deepens into something far more dangerous, society’s gossip, old wounds, and painful misunderstandings threaten to keep them apart. To find happiness, both must learn that love is not always found in grand gestures or fairy-tale beginnings—sometimes it grows quietly, where least expected, between two hearts brave enough to trust again.
A heartwarming marriage-of-convenience Regency romance filled with family, longing, humour, and emotional depth, The Earl’s Reluctant Bride is the perfect beginning to the Daughters of Rosewood Hall series.
A marriage of convenience was never meant to feel like this…
By Charlotte Everly ✨
