The Widowed Bride: Ravenswood Hall - the Beginning
The Widowed Bride: Ravenswood Hall - the Beginning

Author: Constance Kent

Publisher: Writewood Creations Publishing

Published: 2023-06-14

Total Pages: 54

ISBN-13: 198800392X

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"Family is everything." A decaying mansion. A feuding family. A dark secret that forces them together and drives them apart. Aubrey Eliot arrives at Ravenswood Hall in the guise of Angelique Coleridge's secretary when in reality, she has been hired to act as a spy. A man claiming to be the heir is living in the house and challenges the ambitions Angelique has for her sons. Aubrey is to spy on Carver Coleridge and report back to her employer. The young widow is stunned when the man she has been hired to expose is in possession of a secret of hers. He has protected her in the past. Now she must protect him. In doing so, she discovers a terrible secret about the Coleridge family that if known, would destroy the dynasty and Carver along with it. --- The Widowed Bride is the prequel to Constance Kent's Ravenswood Hall Series. Set in 1875 Maine, the novella introduces the wealthy and powerful Coleridge family before their fall.

Dearly Beloved
Dearly Beloved

Author: Constance Kent

Publisher: Writewood Creations Publishing

Published: 2023-06-09

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 1988003903

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In the orphanage, the brides learned to pick locks and tell lies. In New York society, the grooms learned to hide who they really were. Thrown together in marriages of convenience, how can they possibly succeed? DEARLY BELOVED is the complete collection of Constance Kent’s Foundling Brides of Brooklyn novella series. Set in 1890, New York's Gilded Age, four orphaned women raised in Brooklyn Foundling Home are plucked out of poverty to be joined in matrimony to four rich, handsome, and clever men with unexpected results. Set in New York, Newport, Maine and Long Island, lovers of Gilded Age romance will enjoy this warm, light-hearted romantic collection.

The Maiden Bride
The Maiden Bride

Author: Constance Kent

Publisher: Writewood Creations Publishing

Published: 2018-11-14

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 1988003555

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Endicott heirs have always taken Stark maidens for their brides.... A blood oath forged eight centuries ago bonded Helen Stark to Lord Weathersky Endicott in marriage from the day she was born. The nineteen-year-old orphan bride-to-be arrives at Cragmoore Castle eager to meet her betrothed, sensibly trading love for the security of an arranged marriage. Weathersky has other ideas—and a secret power. The handsome, brilliant Endicott heir is a warlock with mastery over everything but love. He longs to break free of the castle and live a mortal life. Helen resolves to help him without realizing the consequences of breaking the oath. Eight hundred years of supernatural rule will not be overthrown so easily.

Thee I Do Wed
Thee I Do Wed

Author: Constance Kent

Publisher: Writewood Creations Publishing

Published: 2023-03-09

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 1988003830

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She wants to find her parents. He wants to save the family estate. Neither wants marriage, but in 1890 New York, it is the only choice they are given. A Gilded Age novella series from Constance Kent. Lilly Gryce has been a thorn in the side of Brooklyn Foundling Home for seven years. So when wealthy Julius Thorley comes seeking a bride in name only to protect his assets from bankruptcy, Lilly is put forward as a candidate. Julius wants a bride, yes, but the headstrong hellcat he is shown--though she is beautiful--won't pass muster in old New York society. Lilly is equally unimpressed by the pedigree of her future husband--though he is remarkably handsome. Julius makes her a deal. He will reunite Lilly with her long-lost parents if she can pass for his wife long enough to save the Thorley estate. Lilly will give anything to see her parents again. She did not expect the price would be her heart.

I Take Thee
I Take Thee

Author: Constanct Kent

Publisher: Writewood Creations Publishing

Published: 2023-03-21

Total Pages: 93

ISBN-13: 1988003857

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A girl on the brink of ending it all. A surgeon in need of a miracle. A marriage of convenience unites them until a secret divides them. A Gilded Age novella series from Constance Kent Claire Jefferson was the least likely of the Brooklyn Foundling Home orphans to find a husband. Suffering debilitating pain, she's finally had enough when Dr. Benjamin Braithwaite arrives to examine her. Braithwaite is a brillant surgeon who failed spectacularly when a patient died during a surgical procedure viewed by a packed theater of observers. Claire submits to his experimental surgical technique and when she doesn't die, she falls in love with the tall, quiet widower. When Braithwaite proposes marriage for the sake of her full recovery and to provide a mother for his young son, Claire enthusiastically enters into a marriage of convenience, believing she knows everything about her new husband.

The Dark Regent
The Dark Regent

Author: Constance Kent

Publisher: Writewood Creations Publishing

Published: 2018-11-14

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 1988003520

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London, England 1875. Fawn Heathcote has resisted the advances of her aunt's rakish half-brother for as long as she dared. Dependent on her aunt's charity, the orphan girl has steadfastly refused to succumb to Captain Crispin Wolfe's indefatigable attempts to seduce her. Declaring himself her regent, Wolfe vows to block attempts to marry her off, provoking Fawn's aunt to jealousy. One night, Wolfe delivers a devastating message and Fawn realizes that only the handsome rake can save her. Spirited away to Hawkcliffe Hall, his country estate, the girl lives under Crispin's protection where her resistance to his seduction gradually breaks down. She soon discovers her would-be uncle has a loving side ... and a lethal one.

To Have and To Hold
To Have and To Hold

Author: Constance Kent

Publisher: Writewood Creations Publishing

Published: 2023-03-27

Total Pages: 87

ISBN-13: 1988003865

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She's an orphan waiting for a hero on horseback. He's a sniper grimly fulfilling his duty. Their marriage was arranged when they were children. That doesn't mean they have to like it. A Gilded Age novella series from Constance Kent: Eight years in an orphanage hadn't diminished Delphine Butterwick's faith that one day her true love would show up on a white horse and rescue her. Until he shows up. Captain Thomas Morrow isn't anything like the knight-in-shining she had been dreaming of since her parents died and Tom isn't much happier with Delphine. She's the same insensible child he remembered--only now she is an impractical young woman that he is duty-bound to marry. A sniper with the French Foreign Legion, Tom tells Delphine he's given up on war. At his family cottage on Long Island, Delphine begins to believe a knight might not always have a white horse and a cape. He might be an ordinary man who will never leave her. What started out a failure, might wind up being the best mistake their parents ever made.

The Lovers Trilogy
The Lovers Trilogy

Author: Constance Kent

Publisher: Writewood Creations Publishing

Published: 2021-09-29

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1988003660

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The fates of three families is forever changed when three young couples defy their parents’ wishes and fall passionately in love. The son of a convicted murderer, Wulfric, and the daughter of an Earl, Eden, are both in a state of disgrace when they find themselves thrown together at the church Fete. The vicar's son, Toller and his best friend's sister, Isolde, test the boundaries of childhood friendship when they conspire to leave England for the gold fields of the Yukon. Shell-shocked Nash, the son of an Earl, is battling demons from the battlefield that only the young missionary, Perdita, has the courage to face with him, leading to a steamy encounter. A trilogy of love stories set in a charming Edwardian English village at the start of the Gilded Age.

With This Kiss
With This Kiss

Author: Constance Kent

Publisher: Writewood Creations Publishing

Published: 2023-03-14

Total Pages: 91

ISBN-13: 1988003849

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He's known for his womanizing. She's known for her brains. One thoughtless kiss changes everything. A Gilded Age novella series from Constance Kent: Jane Silver has always relied on her intelligence to insulate her from feeling anything. But when she is kissed by a stranger in the street, her intelligence fails her spectacularly. Hawksley Welland is a New York gilt-edged playboy and a drunk. A man careening on the edge of disaster, he’s burning bridges faster than he can run. Kissing a young woman in the street is the last straw for Great Aunt Agnes who is in charge of his trust. He will marry the girl or he will lose everything. Jane can't be forced into marriage over something as trivial as her reputation. But with a rare book in her possession, she decides to take the risk, intending to cloister herself in the Welland library, safely removed from feeling. She didn't realize a mere kiss from a dissolute but gorgeous stranger would have the power to break down her walls and upend her very soul.