Perdita Pollicott has few choices open to her in life when she arrives in Hertfordshire and meets the Earl's son, Nash Mowbray. She's going to marry a missionary and Nash Mowbray—well Mr. Mowbray can go to the very devil for all she cares. A sentiment they both agree on until Perdita is asked to read to the soldier who suffers from headaches since his return from the Boer War. Locked in with his private demons, Nash is shut down physically and emotionally until one night, caught in a lightning storm with Miss Pollicott, the Earl's son crosses the line and puts Perdita's future in jeopardy.
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The Earl's Son is the third novella in Catherine Lloyd's Edwardian Lovers Trilogy where the intertwined fates of three families begin with a murder. Set in a charming English village at the start of the "Gilded Age," high society was controlled by strictly defined rules governing interaction between the sexes. Inspired by the television series, Downton Abbey, the trilogy contains steamy love scenes written for a mature audience.