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Join a desperate young countess, an enterprising spinster, and a penniless widow as they fall in love and learn to experience pleasure for the very first time.
This trio of sensual and deeply emotional stories includes one daring rescue, one scandalous secret, one extremely awkward wedding night, one gentle giant, two battle-scarred officers, a darkly gothic manor house, and some of the worst food in England.
The Midnight Quill Trio by award-winning and USA Today bestselling author Emily Larkin consists of two novellas and one full-length novel: The Countessâs Groom, The Spinsterâs Secret, and The Baronetâs Bride.
If you love richly detailed historical romances brimming with passion, emotion, and compelling characters, then this collection is for you!
Length: One novel and two novellas totaling 104,000 words
Sensuality level: These historical romances contain steamy love scenes
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The Countessâs Groom (a novella)
Rose, the young Countess Malmstoke, is trapped in a violent marriage. Escape seems impossibleâuntil her horse groom, Will Fenmore, steps forward to help her.
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The Spinsterâs Secret (a novel)
Matilda Chapple is penniless, orphaned, and dependent on her uncleâs grim charity, but sheâs finally found a way to escape: sheâll write her way to financial freedom! Her secret is safeâuntil battle-scarred Waterloo veteran, Captain Edward Kane, agrees to uncover the anonymous authorâs identity.
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The Baronetâs Bride (a novella)
Sir Gareth Locke lost an arm at Waterloo. Heâs in love with his new bride, Cecily, but heâs dreading their wedding night. He knows it will be an ordeal: clumsy, awkward, and mortifying. But Cecily and Gareth are about to have a wedding night that neither of them expects...
Emily Larkin is the award-winning and USA Today bestselling author of the Baleful Godmother historical romance series, a series that readers are calling âsexy, unusual and vastly entertaining,â and "ridiculously wonderful."
When not reading or writing, Emily can be found hikingâpreferably somewhere off the beaten track. She loves to travel, and has lived in Sweden, backpacked in Europe and North America, and traveled overland in the Middle East, China, and North Africa. Her varied career includes stints as a field assistant in Antarctica and a waitress on the Isle of Skye.
Emily writes historical romances as Emily Larkin and fantasy novels as Emily Gee. She has won multiple awards in New Zealand and Australia and has been a finalist in the Romance Writers of America RITA award, as well as the National Readers Choice, Booksellers Best, and Sir Julius Vogel awards.