Courting the Countess

Courting the Countess

<b>England, 1819</b><br /><br />Lady Melissa Pateley is not having an easy time of it.<br /><br />Her beloved husband Neville has died, and a fire at her London home has left her covered in scars.<br /><br />If it wasn’t for a band of loyal servants, she’s not sure how she would survive. <br /><br />Things take a turn for the worse when one day, Colonel Harry Gunn and his fellow soldier Zed break into her home, bundle her into a coach and kidnap her.<br /><br />She is at a loss until she learns that Harry Gunn is the cousin of George Gunn, a man who has been stalking her for years, and that Harry’s Uncle John had warned him that as long as George is out there, Melissa is not safe.<br /><br />Uncle John insists that Harry finds Melissa and keeps her safe.<br /><br />But that very night George shows up at Harry’s home with Harry’s sister Lottie, who thinks Melissa and George would make a good match.<br /><br />Perhaps Melissa would have been safer at home after all.<br /><br />Yet even with her scars, she is certain that the handsome Colonel Gunn is attracted to her.<br /><br />But of course, nothing is ever simple.<br /><br />Startling revelations rip the family apart, causing everyone to question what they once held dear.<br /><br />As Colonel Gunn goes in search of George and the truth, he has to wonder – had the keeping of secrets not marred more lives than the secrets would have destroyed?<br /><br /><h2>Praise for Anne Stenhouse</h2><br /><br />"A moving historical romance" - <b>Holly Kinsella</b><br /><br /><b>Anne Stenhouse</b> is a playwright and author of historical romance, short stories, non-fiction and drama.