Midnight Quill Trio

Emily Larkin

Feb 2018 · Emily Larkin

About this ebook

Three linked historical romances that will touch your heart and make you laugh, cry, and fall in love…

 

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 Countess’s Groom, The Spinster’s Secret, and The Baronet’s 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

 

The Countess’s Groom (a novella)

Rose, the young Countess Malmstoke, is trapped in a violent marriage. Escape seems impossible—until her horse groom, Will Fenmore, steps forward to help her.

 

The Spinster’s Secret (a novel)

Matilda Chapple is penniless, orphaned, and dependent on her uncle’s grim charity, but she’s finally found a way to escape: she’ll write her way to financial freedom! Her secret is safe—until battle-scarred Waterloo veteran, Captain Edward Kane, agrees to uncover the anonymous author’s identity.

 

The Baronet’s Bride (a novella)

Sir Gareth Locke lost an arm at Waterloo. He’s in love with his new bride, Cecily, but he’s 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...

Ratings and reviews

A collection of three love stories starting with the relationship between two young people despite the great difference in their social standing. In "The Countess's Groom" young Rose keeps a secret diary using her love's full name. This very short story has a suspenseful atmosphere as the reader wonders if Rose will be caught by her brutal husband's servant-spies. How horrid would her punishment be? Rose's diary plays a role in the 2nd story, serving as erotic reference material for maiden spinster Mattie. While there is some wry humor in how Mattie and Cecy maintain their spirit in Mattie's uncle's dreary home, the gothic atmosphere is vividly depicted. The Baronet's Bride's characters meet in book 2. Here their anxiously awaited wedding night is depicted. I received a free copy and voluntarily chose to post my review.

About the author

Emily Larkin is the award-winning and USA Today bestselling author of the Baleful Godmother historical romance series, a series that readers are calling “sexy, unusual and vastly entertaining,” and "ridiculously wonderful."

When not reading or writing, Emily can be found hiking—preferably 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.