The Christmas Earl

One gavel stroke changed everything. One unsigned letter changed it again.

Yesterday she was a gentleman's daughter with repurposed bonnets and borrowed ambitions. Today, Anne Sloane is Lady Anne of Penge — and before the ink on her father's new title has even dried, a mysterious letter arrives demanding her hand. No courtship. No name. Only a single initial, a curled-feather seal, and the chilling implication that her family's sudden fortune belongs to someone else.

Navigating a glittering London season she was never born to, Anne must master deportment, decipher calling cards, and smile graciously at men whose breath could fell a horse — all while anonymous letters grow darker and a stranger's threats close in around her. Her only steadying presence is Fetch, the footman who appeared from nowhere, who pulls her from the path of runaway horses with startling ease, and who carries a secret far heavier than her hat boxes. The more Anne relies on him, the more she senses he is not at all what he seems.

With class, identity, and inheritance all hanging in the balance, and a forbidden attraction she cannot afford to name, can Anne unravel who is truly threatening her family — before the life she is only just learning to love is stolen from her entirely?