A Shadow Between the Roses

After her husband's death, Marchioness Eliza Thornhaven returns to Hartleigh Hall expecting only duty, silence, and the careful management of another family's grief.

Instead the old estate seems to remember her, with secrets moving through its shadowed corridors and someone inside watching far too closely.

The last man she expects to trust is Thomas Grey, the quiet estate manager who has known her since they were young and has kept the great house standing without asking for recognition.

When a missing child uncovers truths someone would kill to protect, danger tightens around Hartleigh and draws the widow and the caretaker into an uneasy alliance.

What begins as wary partnership deepens into mutual longing neither of them can deny, even as the house continues to guard its secrets and its legacies.