Part One: Love's Challenge
Young ladies don't just appear out of coaches unannounced, do they?
Since the death of her beloved mistress, young Marguerite has served the bereaved Lord Wilhelmsberg with efficiency and growing devotion. When he returns from the city with an elegant young lady on his arm, he asks Marguerite to make the visitor feel at home. The lady is beautiful and spoiled, but she is no fool -- If she becomes the next Lady Wilhelmsberg, Marguerite will be sent away. The woman is nothing but trouble. Fortunately, Marguerite has surprisingly effective ways of dealing with trouble!
Content advisory: Violence, Adult themes
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Young ladies don't just appear out of coaches unannounced, do they?
Since the death of her beloved mistress, young Marguerite has served the bereaved Lord Wilhelmsberg with efficiency and growing devotion. When he returns from the city with an elegant young lady on his arm, he asks Marguerite to make the visitor feel at home. The lady is beautiful and spoiled, but she is no fool -- If she becomes the next Lady Wilhelmsberg, Marguerite will be sent away. The woman is nothing but trouble. Fortunately, Marguerite has surprisingly effective ways of dealing with trouble!
Content advisory: Violence, Adult themes
Available on Amazon and Kobo and Nook
Love's Yearning
Prologue: Love's Yearning
Things can't get any worse, can they?
A girl wakes up in an alley behind a whorehouse, naked and beaten within an inch of her life. Things can't get any worse, can they? Oh, but they do.
Warning: One reviewer described this prologue as "not a good basis for a romance". We'll let you be the judge.
Note! The prologue is short -- only six chapters.
Content advisory: Intense violence, Adult themes
Available on Amazon and Kobo and Nook
Things can't get any worse, can they?
A girl wakes up in an alley behind a whorehouse, naked and beaten within an inch of her life. Things can't get any worse, can they? Oh, but they do.
Warning: One reviewer described this prologue as "not a good basis for a romance". We'll let you be the judge.
Note! The prologue is short -- only six chapters.
Content advisory: Intense violence, Adult themes
Available on Amazon and Kobo and Nook
Part Two: Love's Sacrifice
Is there nothing Marguerite wouldn't do for the man she loves?
Marguerite strives to be an ideal housekeeper to Lord Wilhelmsberg, but there is only so much a faithful servant can do for her master. What he really needs is a lady of his own status to give him companionship, and, more importantly, to provide him with an heir. But if he never really applies himself to courting, how will such a match ever occur? And if a suitable candidate should appear, is Marguerite willing to give up the man she loves?
Content advisory: Love, Scheming, and Violence
Available on Amazon and Kobo and Nook
Is there nothing Marguerite wouldn't do for the man she loves?
Marguerite strives to be an ideal housekeeper to Lord Wilhelmsberg, but there is only so much a faithful servant can do for her master. What he really needs is a lady of his own status to give him companionship, and, more importantly, to provide him with an heir. But if he never really applies himself to courting, how will such a match ever occur? And if a suitable candidate should appear, is Marguerite willing to give up the man she loves?
Content advisory: Love, Scheming, and Violence
Available on Amazon and Kobo and Nook
Part Three: Love's Return
Marguerite would be wise to find someone else, but that is not so easy to do when one is in love.
After years of faithful service to Lord Wilhelmsberg, Marguerite finds herself exiled from the only place she has ever considered home, and from the only man she has ever loved. But then a telegram arrives from him, requesting her help with an urgent mission. What could it be? And will Marguerite be able to bear working alongside the man she cannot have and cannot live without?
Content advisory: Violence, Adult themes
Available on Amazon and Kobo and Nook
Marguerite would be wise to find someone else, but that is not so easy to do when one is in love.
After years of faithful service to Lord Wilhelmsberg, Marguerite finds herself exiled from the only place she has ever considered home, and from the only man she has ever loved. But then a telegram arrives from him, requesting her help with an urgent mission. What could it be? And will Marguerite be able to bear working alongside the man she cannot have and cannot live without?
Content advisory: Violence, Adult themes
Available on Amazon and Kobo and Nook
Part Four: Love's Reward
Is a near-fatal bullet wound all Marguerite deserves for thirteen years of devoted service to Lord Wilhelmsberg? No, grateful Lady Wilhelmsberg is planning a much more fitting reward than that.
Content advisory: Sexual situations, Adult themes, Morally objectionable content
Is a near-fatal bullet wound all Marguerite deserves for thirteen years of devoted service to Lord Wilhelmsberg? No, grateful Lady Wilhelmsberg is planning a much more fitting reward than that.
Content advisory: Sexual situations, Adult themes, Morally objectionable content
Part Five: Love's Echo
Lady Elena Schafenbein is to be married, and the Wilhelmsbergs are invited. But she makes an unusual request, and a particularly unsavory guest arrives just before the blessed day. Or perhaps 'blessed' isn't the right word?
Content advisory: Adult themes, Morally objectionable content
Lady Elena Schafenbein is to be married, and the Wilhelmsbergs are invited. But she makes an unusual request, and a particularly unsavory guest arrives just before the blessed day. Or perhaps 'blessed' isn't the right word?
Content advisory: Adult themes, Morally objectionable content
Part Six: Love's Reflection
Twelve years pass. The heir to the Wilhelmsberg title has grown strong and tall, like his father. But the guest he brings home from the university is totally unsuitable. Marguerite knows for certain that the girl is trouble -- because she is the spitting image of Marguerite herself!
Content advisory: Objectionable language, Sexual references and situations
Twelve years pass. The heir to the Wilhelmsberg title has grown strong and tall, like his father. But the guest he brings home from the university is totally unsuitable. Marguerite knows for certain that the girl is trouble -- because she is the spitting image of Marguerite herself!
Content advisory: Objectionable language, Sexual references and situations
