The Cornish Ladies Series by Fil Reid

Two people hiding secrets. Are they a match made in heaven or will fate drive them apart?The present dayWhile on holiday in Cornwall, land of her ancestors, Morvoren Lucas agrees with reluctance to accompany her soon to be ex-boyfriend on a sea-fishing trip. Her morbid fear of the water, despite her name meaning 'sea maiden' or 'mermaid' in Cornish, turns out to be justified when a sudden freak wave tosses the fishing boat, flinging her into the sea... moreTwo people hiding secrets. Are they a match made in heaven or will fate drive them apart?The present dayWhile on holiday in Cornwall, land of her ancestors, Morvoren Lucas agrees with reluctance to accompany her soon to be ex-boyfriend on a sea-fishing trip. Her morbid fear of the water, despite her name meaning 'sea maiden' or 'mermaid' in Cornish, turns out to be justified when a sudden freak wave tosses the fishing boat, flinging her into the sea.1811Kit Carlyon takes one last sweep with his nets before heading for home and fishes out what he at first mistakes for a real mermaid. Morvoren. To begin with, he thinks she's dead, but then she revives and he realizes he's stuck with an unwanted visitor just when he and his uncle don't need one. Because Kit and his uncle are smugglers, and they have a shipment from Brittany arriving that night.It takes a trip to Penzance, where Morvoren was staying in a holiday cottage, to make her realize she's traveled back in time, something she doesn't confide in Kit. She's lost, nearly two hundred years before her birth, with no money and not a friend in the world - except for Kit. He, feeling responsibility for her because he fished her out of the sea, decides the only thing he can do is to take her back to his Wiltshire home and put her in the care of his mother and sister.But Morvoren has a secret. In the museum in modern Penzance she's seen a display about local smuggling, and she knows Kit is going to be killed in the cove below where his uncle lives. The problem is that she didn't pay enough attention to the display, and she doesn't know when this is going to happen. Surely she's been snatched back in time for a purpose, and that must be to save the man she's falling in love with.But can you truly change the course of history, or is it written in stone? less

After her father’s suicide, Caroline Fairfield is left practically destitute and needing to find herself employment in a hurry. Her old friend, Ysella Beauchamp, now living in Cornwall, assures her that a family she knows is looking for a governess for nine-year-old Yves, the orphaned heir to his grandfather’s title and fortune, after the previous governess left under a cloud... moreAfter her father’s suicide, Caroline Fairfield is left practically destitute and needing to find herself employment in a hurry. Her old friend, Ysella Beauchamp, now living in Cornwall, assures her that a family she knows is looking for a governess for nine-year-old Yves, the orphaned heir to his grandfather’s title and fortune, after the previous governess left under a cloud.He’s described as weak and delicate, but turns out to be anything but, and Caroline soon discovers that Mrs Treloar, Yves’s formidable aunt, has a distinct lack of concern for his welfare. To the point of seeming to want to put him in danger. And then she discovers he’s being dosed every night, on his aunt’s orders, with something that could prove fatal.Major Nathaniel Treloar, disfigured in battle and returning from Europe now Bonaparte is in captivity, travels down to Cornwall to recuperate at his grandfather’s estate while he decides what to do with his life. He’s touchy about his damaged looks and, although he seems friendly enough, and she’s strongly attracted to him, Caroline can’t get out of her head the fact that he would be the one to benefit if anything were to happen to Yves. When Yves goes missing, Caroline and Nat are thrown together in a terrifying quest to save his life. Read in Kindle Unlimited! The Cornish Ladies Series Book 1 - The Cornish MermaidBook 2 - The Cornish BrideBook 3 - The Cornish InheritanceBook 4 - The Cornish Widow less