An Amiable Foe

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>She wants to be left alone with her family's castle. He wants to show off the home he has just inherited. Neither of them can win.</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Marianne Edgewood is perfectly capable of running Brindale Castle if only the task would be left to her. A centuries-old house of stone is solid unchanging whereas people are not to be relied upon. It matters little that a stranger inherited the castle. She must simply find a way to stay.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>At last fate has been kind to Peregrine Osborne and he has won the approval of his baron uncle his London friends and the deed to a castle in Kent. He certainly deserves his success after suffering a series of setbacks through no fault of his own. If only the property's comely resident Miss Edgewood didn't stand in the way of his urgent attempts to bring the castle to its proper glory.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>When Perry embarks on a whirlwind renovation of Brindale Marianne proves to be confoundingly resistant to his efforts. As Perry finds it increasingly difficult to make her see things his way he begins to question whether having his way at all costs is worth forcing Marianne from everything she has ever known. And Marianne must decide whether a cold pile of stones is truly a replacement for a warm beating heart.</span></p>