検索キーワード： 著者 "Charlotte Fairmont" すべてのカテゴリー

Elinor Vayle inherits more than a country estate. She inherits its debts, its failing land, its exhausted household, and the quiet obligations hidden between the official records. Ashdown Court is not yet ruined. That is what makes it dangerous. As repairs mount and neighboring landowners circle for advantage, Elinor must decide whether the estate can be saved—or whether keeping it alive will cost more than it deserves. A restrained, atmospheric historical novel about inheritance, labor, continuity, and the true cost of maintaining what others are ready to abandon.

Margaret Fell has spent twelve years caring for a cathedral close, a garden she loves, and a life she never expected to leave behind. When a new Sub-Warden arrives to claim the house she must vacate, Margaret prepares herself for an uncertain future. But Philip Carne arrives a week early, and their unexpected days under the same roof gradually become something neither of them anticipated.

Clara Ashby came to Hartwell House as a governess. She did not expect to stay. Over the course of a year, she has helped rebuild more than lessons and routines. A neglected garden has come back to life. Two girls have begun to trust again. And the quiet order of the household has shifted —steadily, almost imperceptibly —around her. But belonging is not easily claimed. When Edmund Hartwell asks her to become part of the family in name as well as in practice, the question is no longer what she can do for the household…It is whether she can accept a place within it.

A quiet manor. Two children in need of guidance. A governess who never intended to stay. When Miss Clara Ashby arrives at Hartwell House to take a position as governess, she expects a practical arrangement and nothing more. Her task is simple: educate two young girls, maintain order in the schoolroom, and remain professionally distant from the household she serves. But Hartwell House is not as quiet as it first appears. The children carry the quiet weight of loss. The once-beautiful garden has been left to grow wild. And the reserved master of the estate keeps the world at a careful distance.