A Charm of Magpies

Captain James Garbrae and Lady Catherine Montgomery are to be married; not because they want to be, not because they love each other, but because their families need them to be.

Captain Garbrae - hard-working, handsome, passionate, and determined - sacrifices love for the inheritance of a cotton mill and for the chance to shape a better future for those he employs.

Lady Catherine - privileged, beautiful, sharp-witted, and sharper tongued - sacrifices her chance of a future with a man of her choosing in order to save her family from poverty and shame.

Can a marriage borne from sacrifice, and tainted with bitterness, survive? Can two people, who are locked in a battle of wills, compromise to find peace? Will early challenges break their fragile union or forge a stronger one? Will Captain Garbrae and Lady Catherine ever offer one another the hope of happiness they both thought lost?

This is book 1 in a trilogy of linked romance novels.