

As Maria’s companion is under thirty she’s regarded as unchaperoned. His half sister Maria has been living with her governess turned companion. His stepmother (a piece of work!) was ill and eventually died. Too many memories!His half-sister and his step-mother have repaired to another property, Prospect Hill in East Sussex, after his father’s death. Years later, without reconciliation to the father he adored, he finds himself the Earl of a place he doesn’t feel comfortable in. A mystery threads throughout covered with lies and revealed with truth.Justin Wiley, Earl of Brandon was banished from home at twenty-two. Families, loss, hurt, misunderstandings, forgiveness and gain. Perfectly sublime!So I finished reading this with a soppy smile on my face, exhausted from trying to remember all the various members of the involved families.And that’s what this story is about.


And while he may believe he’s found an obvious candidate in beautiful twenty-five-year-old Lady Estelle, she is most certain that they could never make a match. To help with her distress, she begrudgingly agrees for Maria’s sake.Īs family secrets unravel during Maria’s homecoming, Justin discovers his desire for a countess. When Justin arrives and invites Estelle and her brother to accompany Maria to Everleigh Park He travels to her home to fetch her back to the family seat at Everleigh Park.Īlthough she adored him once, Maria now loathes Justin, and her friend Lady Estelle Lamarr can see immediately how his very name upsets her. His halfsister, Maria, when her mother dies. A dark, dour man, he nonetheless takes it as his responsibility to care for In this Westcott family novel, New York Times bestselling Regency Romance author Mary Balogh shows once again how love truly conquers all.Īs a young man, Justin Wiley was banished by his father for mysterious reasons, but now his father is dead, and Justin has been Earl of Brandon for six years. And sometimes, it just takes one person to pull it back together.

Sometimes, just one person can pull a whole family apart.
