British Historical Romance

A Scandalous Widow. A Desperate Lord. A Contract That Ignites Forbidden Affection. Dive into "Ink and Affection," a captivating tale of a marriage forged in pragmatism, but destined for something far more profound. Lord Nathaniel Ravenswood faces ruin unless he secures an heir. Lady Sophia Harrington, a widowed beauty with a scandalous past and a fortune to invest, offers an unconventional solution: a marriage of convenience. Their meticulously crafted contract—separate bed-chambers, shared finances, and a strict "no emotional demands" clause—seems foolproof. But as spring awakens, so ...

James Fenimore Cooper was America's first successful popular novelist. Son of the prominent federalist William Cooper, founder of the Cooperstown settlement, James was educated at Yale in preparation for a genteel life as a federalist gentleman. After his father's death in an 1809 duel, Cooper quickly squandered his inheritance, and at thirty was on the verge of bankruptcy. He turned to writing but his first book, Precaution (1820), was a failure.