The Secrets of Ashmore Castle

by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles Book 1 in the Ashmore Castle series.

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In 1901, the Earl of Stainton dies in a hunting accident, forcing his eldest son Giles to abandon the independent life he has built and return to Ashmore Castle. He inherits a title, a divided household and debts serious enough to threaten the Tallants’ future. Giles loves the penniless Nina, but the shy and wealthy Kitty Bayfield appears to offer the only marriage capable of rescuing the estate.

As Giles weighs affection against duty, the Tallant family and their servants must adjust to a new master and an uncertain order. The novel establishes the series’ central conflict between the obligations of an aristocratic house and the private desires of the people who live within it, revealing how money, marriage and secrets connect life in the drawing rooms with the anxieties below stairs.