The Man Who Bought The Valley - A Slow-Burn Boss and Employee MM Historical Romance: 1 (The Glasfryn Orchid Saga) - Couverture souple

Croft, Edward

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798235275959

Editeur : Wmc Publishing, 2026

Synopsis

Crispin Hale has built his life on usefulness. As land-agent of Glasfryn Court, he keeps the ledgers balanced, the tenants managed, and the old Welsh estate standing as best he can. But in March 1888, the estate's orchid glasshouses are failing, the Michaelmas note is coming due, and the one man who can save the heating system is the man Hale most resents.

Reuben Crale is a self-made ironmaster with money, ambition, and a reputation for buying what old county families refuse to give him. His boilers can keep Glasfryn's precious orchids alive. His presence can also unsettle every rule by which Hale has survived.

What begins as a practical contract becomes a dangerous intimacy built in warm glasshouses, cold libraries, railway journeys, late-night boiler watches, and the silence of a valley that sees more than it says. Hale cannot afford to want a man whose money could save or ruin him. Crale cannot bear to be wanted only for what he owns.

As the orchid season turns toward London and the estate's future hangs in the balance, two men must decide whether love can exist without ownership, without leverage, and without a name the world will recognize.

The Man Who Bought The Valley is a slow-burn MM Victorian historical romance about class, secrecy, trust, found family, and the quiet courage of choosing love in a world that offers no easy place for it.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wmc Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798235275959
• Reliure: Tapa blanda
• Nombre de pages: 286
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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