**Can Captain Malvern keep his new marriage of convenience all business--or will it turn into something more?** Captain Charles Malvern owes a great debt to the man who saved his life--especially since Major Richardson lost his own life in the process. The best way to honor that hero's dying wish...
**Can Captain Malvern keep his new marriage of convenience all business--or will it turn into something more?**
Captain Charles Malvern owes a great debt to the man who saved his life--especially since Major Richardson lost his own life in the process. The best way to honor that hero's dying wish is for Malvern to escort the man's grieving fiancée and mother safely to a new cottage home by the sea. But along the way, he learns of another obligation that has fallen on his shoulders: his uncle has died and the captain is now the Earl of Rothwell.
When he and the ladies arrive at his new manor house in Devon, they discover an estate in need of a leader and a gaggle of girls, all wards of the former earl. War the new earl knows; young ladies and properties he does not. Still wishing to provide for the bereaved Lady Sophia Haverly, Charles proposes a marriage of convenience.
Sophie is surprised to find she isn't opposed to the idea. It will help her care for her betrothed's elderly mother, and she's already fallen in love with the wayward girls on the Rothwell estate. This alliance is a chance to repay the captain who has done so much for her care, as well as divert her attention from her grief. When Malvern returns to his sea commission, she'll stay behind to oversee his property and wards.
It sounds so simple. Until the stalwart captain is arrested on suspicion of smuggling, and Sophie realizes how much he's come to mean to her. Now she'll have to learn to fight, not only for his freedom but also for his love.
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**Can Captain Malvern keep his new marriage of convenience all business--or will it turn into something more?** Captain Charles Malvern owes a great debt to the man who saved his life--especially since Major Richardson lost his own life in the process. The best way to honor that hero's dying wish...
**Can Captain Malvern keep his new marriage of convenience all business--or will it turn into something more?**
Captain Charles Malvern owes a great debt to the man who saved his life--especially since Major Richardson lost his own life in the process. The best way to honor that hero's dying wish is for Malvern to escort the man's grieving fiancée and mother safely to a new cottage home by the sea. But along the way, he learns of another obligation that has fallen on his shoulders: his uncle has died and the captain is now the Earl of Rothwell.
When he and the ladies arrive at his new manor house in Devon, they discover an estate in need of a leader and a gaggle of girls, all wards of the former earl. War the new earl knows; young ladies and properties he does not. Still wishing to provide for the bereaved Lady Sophia Haverly, Charles proposes a marriage of convenience.
Sophie is surprised to find she isn't opposed to the idea. It will help her care for her betrothed's elderly mother, and she's already fallen in love with the wayward girls on the Rothwell estate. This alliance is a chance to repay the captain who has done so much for her care, as well as divert her attention from her grief. When Malvern returns to his sea commission, she'll stay behind to oversee his property and wards.
It sounds so simple. Until the stalwart captain is arrested on suspicion of smuggling, and Sophie realizes how much he's come to mean to her. Now she'll have to learn to fight, not only for his freedom but also for his love.
The Indebted Earl (#03 in Serendipity & Secrets Series)$25.99
Koorong code580190
ISBN9780825446191
Pages288
PublisherKregel Publications
Publication date23 March 2021
Dimensions22 x 140 x 215mm
Weight0.308kg
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Another reluctant earldom unexpectedly inherited. Captain Charles Wyvern owes his friend and comrad Major Richardson his life at the expense of his own but how can he face this man's finance and tell her that? But this is what his friend inadvertently requests by asking him to go visit her, for he has to tell her the truth. Here we meet the Duke of Haverly's younger sister Sophie, a sweet tempered girl looking after the mother of the man she is to marry. But her world is turned upside down with the sad news of his death.
This story is about a marriage of convenience due to enforced circumstances from the love and respect of a dead man's honour. Not only does Charles find he has inherited a manor house but three orphaned sisters. There are some mysterious incidentsand the townspeople seem to be hiding something that Charles finds himself in jail and awaiting a mockery of a trial. The Duke of Haverly comes to the rescue. This book had so much in it, all the undercurrents of substances. The Earl's relationship with the Major, his relationship with Sophie and with the girls. Sophie's relationship with her Frances's mother vs with her own mother. . . so many. Such mystery and suspense in just the right amounts. . . . now to find the book Joy to the World to find the novella on the Duke's sister-in-law Cilla, to find her happily ever after. Then the Thorndyke & Swann Mystery novels that continue on from this series.
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars
4 years ago
My favourite of the series
The only thing that would have made this book better for me was if Charles had only inherited the manor and land without a title. I liked him as a captain, but at least he kept that part of himself intact even after his became an earl. The best friend falling in love with his deceased friend's fiance plotline has always been a little weird to me, but Erica wrote it well. I very much enjoyed this, especially the little girls! I hope the girls get their own story one day. I'd love to revisit these characters again.
