Previously published as A Good Deed Repaid by Ella Cornish.

A washer girl selling biscuits in the winter cold. A gentleman’s kind-hearted younger son. One household where she finally belongs.

Emma Wright, Washer Girl Turned Maidservant. Her father lost at sea, Emma works to keep her widowed mother fed, until a runaway tablecloth and a rescued hat sweep them into kindly Mr Button’s household. She wants to guard the home and family she has found. Her master’s charge sends her north with his sons, into a railway venture she cannot trust.

Jacob Button, Gentleman’s Younger Son and Reluctant Investor. Jacob has followed his elder brother Isaac all his life, into mischief and now into a grand railway scheme bought with their inheritance. He wants to be his own man at last. Breaking free of Isaac means defying the only loyalty he has ever known.

In Hull, the venture’s promises grow louder while the fortune dwindles, and the elder brother’s appetites turn darker than Emma dares to name. If she cannot protect Jacob from the man he follows, two brothers lose a father, a home, and each other.

Emma has spent her life earning her place. Love cannot be earned.

• Rags-to-riches heroine
• Upstairs-downstairs romance
• Childhood friends to sweethearts
• Slow-burn clean romance
• Protective hero
• Prodigal son story
• Victorian London setting
• Clean closed-door romance

Perfect for fans of rags-to-riches Victorian romance, upstairs-downstairs love stories, and gentle faith-filled historical fiction.

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