A private collection of forbidden love letters.
Dear Maeve,
I have one rule, written for men exactly like him: never take a client with history. I have never broken it. Not for money, not for anyone, not once — until his name landed on my desk requesting me specifically, and some ugly, competent part of me was glad.
From The Boardroom Truce
The opening chapters are free to read.
She has one rule. He's the reason she wrote it.
Rosalind Cade · Completed · 16 chapters · 2h 11mWarm
Every novel here is finished and begins with a heroine’s letter. The first five chapters of each are free.
Not sure where to start? Three different ways in.
A wedding speechwriter agrees to be a chef's girlfriend on paper for twelve appearances, and writes the clause about kissing herself. Quick, witty and warm, set in London.
Her letter: “I have started checking my phone at hours that have nothing to do with work, which is not in the contract, and I would like it on the record that I noticed.”
Ten years after she walked out of their wedding, she is sent to buy his house, and he makes her stay the week first. Yearning and restrained, told by the one who left.
Her letter: “He has never bluffed in his life. I would like to know whether I can get through seven days in his house without giving him the version.”
A debt-reader inherits a page that can end a border lord's endless winter, and the price only counts if nobody makes her pay it. Fantasy with a dry wit and a very slow thaw.
Her letter: “I can account for every coin that has crossed my counter in ten years. I cannot account for why, when I read him that page, the first thing I felt was not dread.”
Romantic suspenseForbidden loveWarm
“My editor told me, before any of this started, not to fall in love with my subject.”
FantasyMarriage of convenienceWarm
“I married the man who ended my father’s reign.”
ContemporarySecond chanceWarm
“There is an Italian verb, mancare, that turns the sentence round: not I miss you but you are missing from me, as if the absence were yours to account for and not mine to carry.”
FantasyEnemies to loversWarm
“Eleven years ago I ended a war, or so they say on the green every spring with their cups up, and I have poured tea every morning since so that my hands have something honest to do that is not shake.”
FantasyForbidden loveWarm
“I have let the whole county believe my house is haunted for a year and a half.”
Romantic suspenseForbidden loveWarm
“I found a forgery once by noticing that a signature’s ink sat slightly proud of a varnish layer that should have cured a hundred years before the hand that wrote it was born.”
ContemporarySecond chanceWarm
“My friend is getting married on Saturday under a two-hundred-year-old oak, and I’m the one who has to decide whether it’s safe for eighty-four people to stand beneath it.”
ContemporaryForbidden loveWarm
“I have been married for eleven years to a kind man, and I love him.”
ContemporaryEnemies to loversWarm
“Six years ago a critic wrote three hundred and forty words about my cooking.”
FantasySlow burnWarm
“I measure things for a living.”
Romantic suspenseBodyguardWarm
“I keep every receipt, because a receipt is the only thing anyone gives you that says what happened.”
ContemporarySecret relationshipWarm
“I count things.”
ContemporarySecret relationshipWarm
“For two years I have written careful memos to a man I am not allowed to meet.”
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