One Good Deed Deserves a Lover by Merry Farmer

He has children to raise, an estate to manage, and a family’s expectations to uphold. Widower Anthony wants nothing more than to live his life in the country, as far away from London and his duties as a peer as he can get. Instead of going home to Wiltshire, his family, and the marriage that his mother will inevitably attempt to force him into, he is happy to idle away the summer with his friends at Wodehouse Abbey in Yorkshire.Īnd then temptation arrives in the form of the estate’s owner, Lord Anthony Wodehouse, Duke of Malton. Lord Barrett Landers, Viscount Copeland, is at loose ends after being decommissioned as a naval officer at the end of the Napoleonic Wars. PLEASE BE ADVISED: Steam Level - Smokin' hot! This includes explicit scenes between male lovers, so if that isn't what you want to read, please feel free to pass on this book. But when Septimus is offered the chance of a lifetime in the form of the ship he’s always wanted to command, he will have to choose between the possibility of lifelong love and the dream that is finally within his reach. It doesn’t matter how hard Septimus fights his feelings for Adam, the two men can’t seem to stay away from each other. …until temptation arrives at Wodehouse Abbey in the form of handsome, older, irresistible Septimus.

His goal of starting a school for underprivileged children once his noble charges outgrow his tutelage seems well within reach… Now, as tutor to the Duke of Malton’s precocious children, he has a comfortable life in a grand country estate far away from ridicule. …until a pair of blue eyes and a mischievous smile tempt him to forget everything, including discretion.Īdam Seymour has had to fight for everything he has, from the scholarship that allowed him to attend university to the right to be himself. Septimus would do anything to get back to sea… Now that his ship has been decommissioned at the end of the Napoleonic Wars, he has nothing to do but accept the invitation of one of his fellow naval officers to convalesce for the summer at a remote country estate in Yorkshire. Sailing Master Septimus Bolton has spent his entire life at sea…in more ways than one.

One Good Deed Deserves a Lover by Merry Farmer