The Secrets of Sir Richard Kenworthy

by Julia Quinn Book 4 in the Smythe-Smith Quartet series.

First published 2015

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Sir Richard Kenworthy urgently needs a wife and selects Iris Smythe-Smith after seeing her at the family musicale. His determined courtship gives Iris reason to suspect that the proposal is driven by something other than love.

Marriage takes her to Richard’s Yorkshire estate, where a concealed family crisis explains his haste but not the manipulation used to secure her consent. The final quartet novel tests whether affection can survive secrecy and whether Richard can replace paternal control with an honest partnership that respects Iris’s judgement.