_Balinor_

Lady Rhea Montgomery, Countess of Riverian has the perfect life.
A wonderful, powerful husband who rules his county with dignity and honour. Enough wealth to keep her dressed in the finest of silks and decked in jewels to enhance her radiant beauty. And people who love her as their beloved Countess.
Life is perfect, until suddenly it isn't and Rhea loses everything to a woman younger and more capable.
Becoming no one after being someone is almost too much to bear and just when Rhea resigns herself to her fate, along comes Lord Augustus Holloway, Duke of Ravenholm.
Everything she has heard about the powerful and dangerous man says to stay away but his sweet fondness for her says otherwise.
Augustus seduces Rhea into his frightening yet exciting world and leaves her questioning whether she could be someone without Lanon, and if her connection to him is worth the chaos it brings into her once peaceful life.
Rhea had once been a merchant's daughter and then a Countess. If she played the game right, and she damn well will, she could become a Duchess or maybe even Queen.

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Note: There is some confusion because of the language I use and the setting but please be aware that THIS IS NOT A HISTORICAL NOVEL.
It's a mix between 19th/20th century society and values and modern day technological advances.
Please keep that in mind so you don't go in with expectations that will not be met.
If you're cool with that, go right ahead and enjoy.

Lord Holloway's Adored Lady: Climbing The Ranks After Divorce

Situated in the heart of Ravenholm, the beauty of Holloway Palace has been said to rival even that of the Royal Palace.

With over a hundred and twenty bedrooms, twelve towers that kissed the clouds, the seashell white edifice took inspiration from the Romantic style Pre-Andronican castles, perfectly blending together beauty and elegance with the practicality of defence.

Standing before the building that despite housing only two generations of Holloways, had become one of the most important structures in Euthorian history, had Rhea feeling like a rabbit facing the point of the hunter's arrow.

"It is even more beautiful inside," Augustus teased with the familiarity of having rendered many speechless by his home.

Rhea turned to him with an embarrassed blush on her cheeks and her lips closed with an audible click.

His Rose Among Thorns