The Librarian's Lesson

A grumpy duke, a sunshine librarian, a snowed-in Northumbrian Christmas, and lessons that dont stay on the dance floor.

Posy Tilling has kept her fathers parish books since she was fifteen, argued with a bishop about Pliny and won, and never once been asked to dance. When a letter offers her a hundred and fifty pounds to catalogue a dukes neglected library, she packs her spectacles, her mothers old silk, and her worst singing voice—and goes north.

Ralph Stobart, ninth Duke of Wansbeck, has not left Harelaw Hall in three years. Not since his brother died and his bride walked out of the church. He does not want a librarian. He does not want company. He most certainly does not dance.

Posy doesnt care. She opens his curtains, reads his accounts upside down, and drags him to the village fair. Then the snow closes the moor road, and there is nothing to do at night but unlock the music room, uncover the piano, and teach a duke to waltz.

The dance lessons turn into other lessons. And Ralph, once he decides, decides all the way.

But somebody has been bleeding Harelaw dry for years. When a charming cousin serves a commission of lunacy the morning after the Twelfth Night ball, Ralph stands to lose his house, his fortune, and his freedom. Only a woman who reads every ledger to the last line can find the proof before the jury sits.

A witty, warm, and steamy romance set in the Regency era with a small mystery at its heart. It stands alone, ends in a happily ever after, and contains explicit scenes for adult readers.

Perfect for readers who love grumpy-sunshine romance, snowed-in Christmases, dance lessons, and a hero who does kind things in secret.