The Earl's Daughter

The Earl and Countess of Hale have resigned themselves to the fact that their daughter Margaret will never marry. Using the Latin and Greek she learned from her father, she is determined to start a college for gentlewomen to give them the education gentlemen routinely receive. But then she meets Dominique de Chancy, a half-French, half-English nobleman. She tries to ignore him, with his flamboyant wardrobe and laughing attitude.Their courtship is more like a dance of scorpions, but as Pascal says, the heart has its reasons that reason cannot know. It is only once they are married that Margaret realises that Dominique's family has a secret that will soon involve them both in grave danger. The House of Hale trilogy was GL Robinson's first foray into Historical Romance, and over the years, readers have wanted to know what happens next. Here is the answer, told with her usual attention to historical detail and characteristic wit. Although it is the last story in a saga, this novel is written as a stand-alone.