All up and down the hall, doors closed, except one, which opened still further. Hannah let out a sigh of relief as she recognised the elegant individual who stepped into the hall, though she doubted he would know her from a bar of soap. He was Lord Chirbury’s cousin, and Read more…
“You are safe now,” Lord Aldridge assured her. Miss Winston turned glowing eyes Ralph’s way. “Thanks to Mr Stephenson.” She shot a quick glance at Lord Aldridge before allowing her eyes to be drawn back to Ralph. “My lord, did you say Mr Stephenson broke Lord Hitherton’s nose?” She was Read more…
She had not imagined such a result when she had written to the duke to beg a refuge for her father, his distant cousin, who was failing in health and confused in mind. Papa was an ill-paid country vicar with a lifetime habit of giving away whatever came into his Read more…
The ancestral seat of the Marquises of Aldridge is Kinleven House. It became part of the Chillingham and later the Haverford estates when the daughter of the last Scots Marquis of Aldridge, a courtier of James VI who became James 1 of England, married Baron Chillingham and gave birth to Read more…
Eleanor had withdrawn to her private sitting room, driven there by His Grace’s shouting. Her son, the Marquis of Aldridge, was as angry as she had ever seen him, his face white and rigid and his eyes blazing, but he kept his voice low; had even warned the duke about Read more…
Marcel Fournier is the hero in A Suitable Husband, and the love interest of Cedrica Grenford, a distant cousin of the Duke of Haverford and secretary to the Duchess of Haverford. Marcel is an émigré, bought to London as a child when his parents fled the Terror in France. He Read more…
Aldridge was approaching, his long-limbed prowl deceptively fast. “Excellent shooting, Winderfield. I apologise for my principal. I knew the man was an ass. I did not realise he was also a coward.” Drew inclined his head just enough to not be openly insulting. “I told him to stand still,” he Read more…
The Melvich estate is the northernmost of the Haverford estates. Dun Melvich, the castle that overlooks the coast, is the principal residence in an area that boasts mostly cottages for crofters and fishermen. It was originally built as a fortress to protect the fishing villages along the coast from the Read more…
Jasper argued. And when she had convinced him, each of the powerful peers he fetched to Redfern raised further objections. “We are concerned for your safety, Lady Millchurch,” explained the Marquis of Aldridge, who had come in the train of Redfern’s eccentric and dissolute neighbour to the West, the Duke Read more…
Tolliver works for a government agency, managing what we would today call covert operations. When Jude first met him, when she was writing Revealed in Mist, all she knew about him was that Prue Virtue, the heroine, worked for him as a spy. Over the course of that book, readers Read more…