The Companion and the Schoolmaster

The Companion and the Schoolmaster is my latest Regency romance based in Sidmouth, Devon. You can read it on your phone using the free Kindle app or on an actual Kindle.

Nancy Green has lived a quiet life of endurance for far too long. Once a capable governess, she is now a companion to the wealthy widow, Viola Harrington, whose biting tongue and tight grip control not only Nancy’s freedom but also her purse and her prospects. Invisible and dismissed as a woman of no consequence, Nancy is expected to be grateful for her lot. She is not.

Nancy dares to hope when Frances Pebbleton, a bathing-hut attendant with a penchant for matchmaking, secretly orchestrates a solution. A dashing schoolmaster, Rupert Elliott, offers the tantalising possibility of employment and, with it, an escape from Viola's clutches. But Nancy's embittered mistress retaliates, exposing secrets that threaten to destroy everything they’re trying to build.

This is a tender Regency romance of later-life opportunities and a heroine who dares to be strong.

"The Companion and the Schoolmaster" is a Regency romance novella of approximately 12,500 words. Clean and closed door, nothing steamier than a kiss. No cheating, no cliffhangers, and a guaranteed happily ever after.

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