Captivating the Countess
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Publisher Description
Can a ghost help a marquess to save his father and captivate a countess?
A spinster countess with a penniless estate, Lady Isobel Malcolm Ross faints when startled, allowing spirits to enter her head. Undeterred by her impairment, Bell learns of a position in a quiet ducal household where she might earn her way.
Jasper Winchester, Marquess of Rainford, comes from a long line of healers, but he’s unable to cure his own father. The duke's dying request is that Rainford marry to protect the family fortune. The marquess has dutifully acquired a suitable candidate, but Bell's arrival unleashes the ghost of Rain's grandmother, who frightens his fiancée into eloping with his steward.
Much as Rain would like to toss the haunted countess into the snow, only Bell can calm the furious ghost, hush his heir’s opera singers, and manage his unruly sisters. Soon, his family insists that Rain marry Bell before all their fortunes are lost. Except Bell wants no part of this noisy, tumultuous household, where a mere slamming door can startle her into falling. But how can she abandon the eccentric family who accepts her foibles?
The ghost’s demands for Bell to help Rain save the duke result in mayhem and catastrophe. Now the two must find a way to heal each other—before the duke is gone, the family's future is lost, and any hope of love vanishes.
Customer Reviews
Fast paced and Enthralling Romance
Fainting whenever she is startled severely restricts Bell’s life but she is responsible for an estate and village that need her to earn money and so she travels to Yates Castle to take a position as steward. With a shrieking opera singer, cadre of strong-willed noisy women and a ghost who slams doors the Castle is not conducive to Bell’s health but the ghost is insistent that she stay and save the dying Duke. In staying Bell becomes entangled in the lives of all those in the Castle and becomes close to the Marquess. Fab story, great characters, never a dull moment.
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book from the author. All thoughts and opinions are my own.