historical romance — explicit, open door. `regency romance` returns · Culverton
The Ungloved Hand
A half-pay lieutenant is engaged at forty pounds a year to teach her brother mathematics. Nobody thought to ask what he might teach her.
Suffolk, 1818. Miss Selina Ottershaw is twenty-seven, quietly written off by the neighbourhood, and obliged to sit in the schoolroom as her brother's chaperone. Within a fortnight it is she who is working the problems — and Lieutenant Hugh Crale, beached these three years, thirty-eight, and worth precisely forty pounds a year, who has begun to set them for her.
Then the mortgage falls due at Michaelmas, and her father explains with perfect kindness that Mr Thorncombe of Marley Hill has asked for her, and that the settlement would answer everything. She accepts him. She tells nobody in the schoolroom. She goes on attending the lessons.
It is three weeks later, over a chart of the Channel, that Crale takes her bare hand to correct its position — and neither of them lets go for the space of four seconds, which is a very long time.
On his last night in the house she comes down in her dressing gown and turns the key herself. They are not discovered, which is worse: now she must choose it again in daylight, in cold blood, and pay for every part of it.
Explicit, open-door Regency romance. For readers of Cecilia Grant and Lisa Kleypas — and for anyone who has ever wanted Persuasion with the door left open.
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Historical Romance / RegencyHistorical Romance / GeneralErotica
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