The Haverford family is a large one, with many poor relations and also a number of by-blows, some recognised by the family and some not.
Lord Diomedes Finchley is officially the third son of the Marquess of Pevenwood. But when he was ten, Pevenwood discovered that Dom was actually the son of the Duke of Haverford, a hated political rival. He attempted to divorce his wife over the long-ago affair. His application to the church Read more…
The duchess took a seat by the window and gestured for Cedrica to join her. Her Grace had not been in this room since before the house party, contenting herself with daily reports and quick consultations wherever she happened to be during the day. Whoever did the bulk of the Read more…
Auberon Fitzgrenford is steward of the estate at Haverford Castle, responsible for everything that happens outside of the castle, and Aldridge’s trusted deputy inside the castle when the housekeeper or the butler are unable to make a decision within their respective spheres. Auberon’s father Evander Fitzgrenford was the son of Read more…
It had been Lord Aldridge’s idea. When Cedrica first realized that he planned to pay the dowry he had promised, she voiced her decision to split it between buying care for her father and helping Marcel pay for the restaurant, but Aldridge advised her to think again. “The Grenfords owe 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…
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…
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…
Cedrica Grenford is a distant cousin of the Duke of Haverford. She is the daughter of “an ill-paid country vicar with a life time habit of whatever came into his hands”. When her father failed in health and became confused in mind, the church proposed to put him into a Read more…