To officer’s wife
With a scandal in her past, shopkeeper Henrietta Gardiner has become wary of men, including her friend’s brother, dashing officer Sebastian Fortini. When Henrietta is called upon to take in her three young nephews, Sebastian is on hand to help her, even offering a convenient marriage as a solution! Henrietta starts to realise her new husband’s carefree exterior hides a more intriguing interior...but where will that leave their hasty marriage?
Jenni Fletcher writes Historical Romance, YA and F1 sports romances. She has been nominated for 6 Romantic Novel Awards and has won the Shorter Romantic Fiction award twice, in 2020 and 2024. She grew up in Scotland and Somerset, has a PhD on some deeply unromantic aspects of early twentieth century fiction, and now lives in the north of England with her family and one extremely hairy dog. She also teaches creative writing at Bishop Grosseteste University.