Ledger and Lace
A Clean Regency Romance of a Clever Bookkeeper, a Reluctant Earl and One Suspicious Estate
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Ledger and Lace
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AI Voice Eleanor Finch
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Narrated by:
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AI Voice Eleanor Finch
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Ethan Marlowe
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Summary
Philippa Merrow is twenty-six, a clergyman's daughter with a rare gift for figures and a reputation for being far too clever to marry. When the formidable Dowager Countess of Harcourt summons her, it is not to find her a husband. It is to find out where her grandson's money has gone.
The Earl of Harcourt has been home from abroad for five months, and he is scowling, proud and quite certain he can save his crumbling estate alone. He has until Midsummer to prove it can pay its own way, or the bank will sell the house over his head. So Philippa goes in under false colors, a housekeeper's niece sorting the dusty muniment room, and begins to read the ledgers nobody has dared to open.
The figures do not add up. A fifth of every rent is collected but never banked. A pension is paid every quarter to a steward who died eight years ago. A tenant cottage pays nothing, and nobody will say why. And on the ninth day, the Earl catches her with the real accounts and makes a bargain: she may finish the audit if she tells him everything she finds, the moment she finds it.
Over one long spring, from a tenants' dinner to a wet ride to a forgotten cottage, from a county assembly to a night among the account ledgers, two guarded people become allies, then friends, then something neither of them planned for. Every figure has a person behind it, and every secret has a sum.
With a sharp-tongued Dowager, a blunt and loving housekeeper, a nervous young clerk who must find his courage, and a cheerfully useless cousin who proves more useful than anyone guessed, this is a spring of wit, warmth and slow-burning trust.
A clean, closed-door Regency romance with a gentle mystery, a heroine who counts everything, and a happy ending worth waiting for.
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