Trade Wind Series Series by Rebecca Aubrey

A spinster with secrets. A self-made industrialist. Forbidden passion.Lady Clara Chadbourne quietly devotes herself to covert pursuits an earl’s sister shouldn’t even ponder in 1849. Her London charity opens her eyes and cements heart-warming friendships. She has a penchant for piano but doesn’t apply herself to virtuous pieces, oh no. Clara’s tastes run ardent.James Robertson has built a commercial empire—and a fortress around his heart... moreA spinster with secrets. A self-made industrialist. Forbidden passion.Lady Clara Chadbourne quietly devotes herself to covert pursuits an earl’s sister shouldn’t even ponder in 1849. Her London charity opens her eyes and cements heart-warming friendships. She has a penchant for piano but doesn’t apply herself to virtuous pieces, oh no. Clara’s tastes run ardent.James Robertson has built a commercial empire—and a fortress around his heart. Nobles like David Chadbourne judge his uncouth muscles and humble Scottish origins. Barging into the earl’s townhouse, James meets Lady Clara—opinionated, delectable, off-limits—and is knocked askew.The chance encounter sparks an awakening, but Clara must refuse the liaison James proposes. Discovery risks her closeness with her brother and social ruination. It’s impossible…irresistible. With promises of secrecy and no sentimental entanglement, they indulge a passion that musses more than the bedsheets. It destroys their defenses, their plans.Their arrangement will end in devastation...or in the trade of a lifetime. less

Two lonely hearts. A sensual awakening. Victorian Christmas cheer.After raising a passel of siblings, Molly Hawkins relishes the safety and predictability of life as a lady’s maid in a lavish London mansion. Others may daydream about escaping domestic service or falling in love, but not sensible Molly—until Lady Clara tasks her with supervising a prickly, fastidious…handsome piano tuner.Reclusive Frederick Vogel has yearned for Molly from afar during his fortnightly visits to her household... moreTwo lonely hearts. A sensual awakening. Victorian Christmas cheer.After raising a passel of siblings, Molly Hawkins relishes the safety and predictability of life as a lady’s maid in a lavish London mansion. Others may daydream about escaping domestic service or falling in love, but not sensible Molly—until Lady Clara tasks her with supervising a prickly, fastidious…handsome piano tuner.Reclusive Frederick Vogel has yearned for Molly from afar during his fortnightly visits to her household. His sterling reputation as England’s premier tuner doesn’t go to his head. No, it’s using his skilled hands to coax a sensitive instrument to sublimity that rewards this solitary man.As Yuletide approaches, Molly and Frederick must work together to expand her ladyship’s music library…and their passion for the project comes from more than their sense of duty.Both of them have long sworn off marriage, citing their eccentricities. But what if their curses were actually blessings, uniting them into a family just in time for Christmas?This heartwarming and steamy novella is the second book in the Trade Wind Series and may be read as a stand-alone. less