The Master of Calverley Hall

Connor Hamilton left Calverley Hall as the blacksmith's boy and comes back as its master. It should be the crowning moment of a long climb, but the house holds someone he never expected to find diminished: Isobel Blake, daughter of the previous owner and once his friend, who has lost her home, her fortune and her good name. Behind the shabby clothes and the brave smile, he sees how fragile she has become, and the urge to protect her soon turns into something closer.

Lucy Ashford builds a Mills & Boon romance on old loyalties and reversed fortunes, where the boy from the forge now holds the keys. For anyone who likes a love story about two people meeting again on very different terms.