_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

"How is Augustus doing?" Rhea asked the question with great care.

"Stressed," was George's immediate response, blunt enough to show he trusted her with his Lord's intimate details.

"Oh," was all she could think to say, not knowing enough about her lover to know how to help him when he was stressed, like she did... had about Lonan.

George was quick to explain further with the awkwardness of a man who did not know how to put emotions to words

"When Lord Augustus gets stressed, he tends to fall into very unhealthy patterns and self-isolates more often than not, to try to protect the image of control and coolness the world has of him. It comes from issues in his childhood he would be better at explaining."

She nodded, tucking away the information about his childhood into the cabinet of Augustus facts she had in her mind. "And is there any way to help him break out of this pattern?"

Stale Reunion