Before the Scandal
The Notorious Gentlemen
Chapter One
Lieutenant Colonel Phineas Bromley didn't expect paradise. True, after ten years spent fighting the French in Spain, anywhere seemed an improvement, but as he crossed the bridge over the River Ouse and onto Quence Park land, he felt more as though he were stepping into hell.
His friends, former soldiers now, had written him over the past two years and told him a little about the condition of his family's ancestral property, so he knew the fences would be in need of repair and the granary roof would leak. The estate, set in the middle of East Sussex, was still pretty enough, but he scarcely noticed the green of the grass or the crisp freshness of the air. Ten years away. The absence seemed both far too long and far too short.
The uneasiness that had been tangling through him since well before he'd rented the only available transport ... read full excerpt from Before the Scandal ebook
