Unbuttoning Miss Matilda

A convenient companionship…

…and a passion neither expects!

Ex-army officer Jack Rutherford is on the run—he must get to Aylesbury to prove his innocence! Opportunity strikes in the unconventional form of Matilda Grey, who needs help to pilot her canal barge. Jack is captivated by her unusual beauty, vulnerability and resilience. But as they travel together in such close quarters their mutual craving becomes as impossible to ignore as the secrets which still lie between them…

About the author

Lucy Ashford, an English Studies lecturer, graduated in English with history at Nottingham University,and the Regency is her favourite period. Lucy, who has always loved to immerse herself in historical romances, has had several novels published, but this is her first for Mills and Boon. She lives with her husband in an old stone cottage in the Peak District, near to beautiful Chatsworth House and Haddon Hall, all of which give her a taste of the magic of life in a bygone age