Regency era short story: 18,000 words, Steamy.
Miss. Elspeth Hewitt wants what every young woman of the day would want, A husband. But due to her circumstances she has found few if any suitors. There have been no seasons in London nor dreams of dresses and gentlemen. Until now she has been content with riding and the books in her fathers vast study.
That is until a young gentleman named Mr. Charles Blackwood moved to the region and has taken the gentry of the area by storm. No one knows quite who he is, nor how he came to so much money. But where others see intrigue in the young man. Elspeth see's an opportunity she has not had. She will need to be cunning and use all the wiles in her possession, and a few she had not thought of yet to win him.
With the help of her ladies maid Mrs. Cook, who is more worldly in the ways and needs of men, Elspeth will open the floodgates of her heart and body, and either be with him, or die trying.
