Lord of the Lamented ^Featured

An Earl declared a war hero, a widow stricken with angry grief, a plot conceived in despair, lies and deception which might undo everything good in their lives, courage and forgiveness which lead to unexpected love at Christmas.

Martin Luckett, the Earl of Truharton, was injured at Waterloo, even as he watched most of his men cut down around him. He returns to England to discover his father and brother dead, and himself now Earl. He has fallen into a despairing lethargy with no enthusiasm for life when the process of hiring new staff changes everything. When Martin interviews a young woman for a position in his household, he feels unaccountably drawn to her, and what follows slowly pulls him out of his blue-devilled state and gives him reason to live again. Until a terrible truth is revealed.

Mrs Adeline Campion had but a few days with her husband before he returned to the battlefield. She wrote to him every day, and clung to the hope of a better future. All of her hopes and dreams died when he did, on the field at Waterloo. Driven nearly mad by her grief, she focused on finding someone to blame for his death – someone she could make pay, could make suffer as much as she was suffering. That quest led her to London, and service in the household of Lord Truharton. But nothing went as she expected, her actions produced misery, for her as well as him, and soon, she was questioning everything she had believed, and regretting all of the secrets and lies.

When those lies are revealed, will Martin’s new purpose be destroyed? Will Adeline lose everything, for a second time?

Or can they find a path to forgiveness and reconciliation with a shared purpose?

And most importantly of all, can love heal the hurts of war?

Will Christmas bring a wedding, or misery?