The Charity Case

‘Do your eyes follow him round the room and thrill when they meet his? Does your heart pound when his hand touches yours? Do your pulses race when he’s close to you? When you see his lips, do you yearn to kiss them so much that you ache with the restraint it takes to forbear?’
‘Stop!’ gasped Isobel, her drowning eyes staring up at him. It was as though he could read her mind.
If he was describing love, she knew precisely how it felt.
One wild night, a shared tragedy bound two young lives
and changed them forever. A decade later, they meet again.

Dominic Anstruther is cold, proud and arrogant, but all three characteristics are undermined when he encounters the daughter of his greatest enemy once more
Isobel Grantham is putting a lost childhood behind her, thanks to an incredible act of charity, when she is given a chance to see her ‘archangel’ again.
Lydia Dunwoody is seeking to rediscover her purpose with a new ‘charity case’, but may have cause to regret her kindness when she falls hopelessly in love, at last.
Into this tangled web falls knightly Harry Maitland, Viscount Stowe – heartsore and in need of a mission – tangling the web still further.

With the backdrop of the giddy celebrations that followed the abdication of Napoleon, this comedy of errors charts a fraught journey for these four very different people to find the love and fulfilment they seek.

One of the interwoven stories of the Gentlemen of Christopher's, this novel still works as a delightful standalone Regency read.




Genre: Historical Romance