"I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach." - Jane Austen, Persuasion
A forbidden acquaintance. A family secret buried in old letters. And a man who was never supposed to matter.
When Lord Averton returns to London after years abroad, Catherine Fitzroy is given one instruction by her father: avoid him entirely. She intends to comply.
She does not comply.
What begins as a chance encounter in Hyde Park becomes something far more dangerous, a connection built on stolen conversations, forbidden rides, and letters that should never have been written. But beneath the drawing room civility of the Season lies a twenty-year-old secret that implicates both their families, and someone is determined it stays buried.
Catherine is clever enough to know she is being managed. Averton is honest enough to admit it. Neither of them anticipated that honesty would be the most dangerous thing of all.
The Earl's Forbidden Letters is a slow-burn Regency romance of secrets, family loyalty, and the inconvenient habit of falling in love with entirely the wrong person.
