Benefactor to the Baroness

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>In a world of rules surrendering to love is the only rebellion that matters.</em></strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Plagued by survivors' guilt after escaping her impoverished childhood selling matchsticks Fontaine Shepherd the Dowager Lady Kerry uses her position on the board of a charitable foundation to relocate starving orphans to the new world-until contact with the new office is abruptly lost. Fearing the foundation will discover she's been clandestinely using funds to bribe workhouse owners to release children she decides to travel across the ocean and re-establish communication herself.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Except the only captain who can transport her in time insists that she not travel alone.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Facing a lonely life after marrying off her nieces Rosemary Summersby reluctantly agrees to attend a ladies' charity group. There she meets the vivacious Lady Kerry who challenges her long-held beliefs of how a lady should look and act. Compelled by a desire to experience the excitement of which her niece often speaks Rosemary accompanies the dowager baroness to a workhouse and witnesses the cruelty of poverty firsthand.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Then Lady Kerry stumbles into Rosemary's cottage one night with an outrageous request: to travel across the ocean as her companion and help her uncover the mystery behind the missing orphans.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Unable to convince the dowager baroness of the dangers of her plan and remembering the sense of responsibility that drove her to accept three orphans into her life fifteen years prior Rosemary decides to join Lady Kerry on her trip. But as the vast ocean and a noble mission stretches before them a shared purpose and a single bunk ignite an unexpected passion that makes both women question what they truly want for themselves.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><u>The Seductive Sleuths</u></strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Book 1 - Companion to the Count</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Book 2 - Mentor to the Marquess</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Book 3 - Benefactor to the Baroness</span></p>