First published 2023
Sabrina Brooks writes bestselling thrillers from her quiet home in the Berkshires, where she lives with two dogs and carefully guards her privacy. Her childhood with an emotionally absent father and her escape from an abusive marriage taught her to value solitude and control. Then a letter arrives that changes everything. Sabrina has inherited a title and estate outside London from a recently deceased uncle she never knew existed. She travels to England planning to sell the property quickly and return home. But walking through the manor's historic rooms and gardens awakens something unexpected in her. The estate attorney, Grayson Abbott, shows her around the grounds, and she finds herself drawn both to the place and to him. Learning about her family's history forces Sabrina to confront the secrets her father kept and consider what her life might look like as Lady Brooks. She must decide whether to maintain the safe, structured world she built or risk everything for a completely different future.
Genres: romance, contemporary, family-drama
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: fish-out-of-water, second-chance
Setting: Berkshires, England, London
Period: contemporary
256 pages · Hardcover · Delacorte Press
Content warnings: abuse, emotional-abuse