Emma V. Leech

She hides from the world. He can’t stop hunting for her.
A tender, magical‑feeling Victorian romance from Best Selling Author Emma V Leech
Lady Aisling Baxter would rather face a charging bull than another London season. The ton is full of gossip, judgement, and men who only notice her when she’s trying to hide behind a potted plant. She needs a husband — desperately — but the only man who has shown the slightest interest in her is the most aggravating creature alive.
And Aisling cannot wait to escape back to the countryside and forget all about him.

Mr Sylvester Cootes, however, has other ideas.
For six long months, Sylvester has been unable to get the mysterious Lady Aisling out of his head. She’s shy, beautiful, and utterly impossible to ignore. Every time he sees her, he finds himself provoking her, teasing her, doing anything to make her look at him. She fascinates him. She infuriates him. She draws him like a lodestone.

And she absolutely, unequivocally hates him.
Or so she claims.

But fate — and the meddling of well‑meaning friends — keeps throwing them together. No matter how determined Aisling is to avoid Sylvester, the universe seems equally determined to shove him directly into her path. And the more time they spend together, the more she begins to suspect that the vexing man might not be her enemy after all.

There’s magic in the air.
Secrets in her heart.
And Sylvester Cootes is becoming far too enchanting to resist.
Perhaps it’s time for Aisling to trust destiny…
And dare to fall under his spell.