The Bachelor proves once again why I always enjoy reading Jeffries’ work. Yet can a gamekeeper and a duke’s sister ever make a life together? To do so means they must both learn to trust the other with well preserved secrets and their own hidden pasts, but only after they figure out how to vanquish the miserable blackmailer once and for all. The more time Gwyn and Wolfe spend together, the more both realize their mutual attraction. Wolfe’s constant attention proves problematic for Gwyn, who is eager to slip away and deliver payment to her foe undetected so she can be done with the whole matter once and for all, and all without her family becoming any the wiser. At 30, she is nearly an old maid by Regency standards, but a girl has to come out sometime! Wolfe, a wounded war hero with a less than pleasing personality is loathe to accept the commission, but he also can’t stand the thought of the blackmailer getting his grubby paws all over the heiress, or worse yet, kidnapping her altogether. Gwyn’s twin brother, Thorn, hires Wolfe to accompany his sister to London for her belated debut to society. Unwilling to let a secret from her past threaten her family’s revered standing in the community, she agrees to pay him off until the estate’s gamekeeper, Joshua Wolfe, stumbles upon their clandestine meeting and intervenes on her behalf.

Lady Gwyn Drake is resilient and strong willed, and there is little that ruffles her feathers, until an old suitor shows up at Armitage Hall intent on blackmailing her.

The Bachelor by Sabrina Jeffries