THE GOVERNESS OF WILLOWMERE: A Steamy Historical Lesbian Romance

Eleanor Blackwood arrives at Willowmere Hall with nothing but scandal trailing behind her and expectations at rock bottom. Her brother's ruin has made her unmarriageable, unemployable, and desperate enough to accept a governess position in the isolated English countryside.

She expects misery. She gets Lady Catherine Ashford instead. Recently widowed, devastatingly beautiful, and trapped in mourning for a husband who spent twenty years teaching her that wanting anything was dangerous, Catherine should be off-limits.

Eleanor knows this. Understands it with perfect clarity. Chooses to ignore it anyway because apparently self-preservation isn't her strong suit. What starts as midnight library encounters and stolen glances during afternoon walks becomes something neither woman can deny.

But Victorian England doesn't forgive women who love each other, and Willowmere's servants notice everything. When Catherine receives a marriage proposal from an appropriate gentleman who could secure her daughter's future, Eleanor makes the devastating choice to leave, convinced she's protecting Catherine from ruin.

Except Catherine's ten-year-old daughter Beatrice has other plans, and she's furious enough to walk three miles through the countryside to tell Eleanor exactly how stupid adults are about love. Now Eleanor must decide: accept the safe misery of separation, or fight for a love that could cost them everything.

Can two women build a life together in a world designed to keep them apart?