She was certain love wasnāt meant for her. He asked seventeen times to prove otherwise. Agnes Bottombrook has spent nine-and-twenty years quietly watching life pass by. Sheās accepted her placeāa spinster, unnoticed and unremarkableācontent to keep her heart safe behind skepticism and sense. Sheās learned to question everyoneās intentions⦠especially the charming ones.
Then Lord Wentford asked her to danceāand didnāt stop asking. Grant Wentford doesnāt hesitate. The moment he meets Agnes, he knows. Sheās not a wager or a whimāsheās his future. And when she doubts, he proposes. Again and again. Seventeen times, each one gentler than the last. Until something softens inside her, and she wonders if maybe love isnāt foolish after all.
She guards her heart. He lays his bare. And somewhere between fear and certainty⦠they begin. Grantās persistence doesnāt feel like pressureāit feels like hope. The slow bloom of something Agnes thought sheād never have. And once she sees where her path is meant to lead, she chooses itānot because sheās convinced itās safe, but because she knows itās right.
She didnāt believe in happily ever after. He just kept asking until she did.
š If youāve ever doubted whether you were worth choosingāand longed for someone who would wait, believe, and gently ask again⦠this story is yours.
A tender prequel to Nessa and Grantās love story, How to Wake a Sleeping Lady.
She was certain love wasnāt meant for her. He asked seventeen times to prove otherwise. Agnes Bottombrook has spent nine-and-twenty years quietly watching life pass by. Sheās accepted her placeāa spinster, unnoticed and unremarkableācontent to keep her heart safe behind skepticism and sense. Sheās learned to question everyoneās intentions⦠especially the charming ones.
Then Lord Wentford asked her to danceāand didnāt stop asking. Grant Wentford doesnāt hesitate. The moment he meets Agnes, he knows. Sheās not a wager or a whimāsheās his future. And when she doubts, he proposes. Again and again. Seventeen times, each one gentler than the last. Until something softens inside her, and she wonders if maybe love isnāt foolish after all.
She guards her heart. He lays his bare. And somewhere between fear and certainty⦠they begin. Grantās persistence doesnāt feel like pressureāit feels like hope. The slow bloom of something Agnes thought sheād never have. And once she sees where her path is meant to lead, she chooses itānot because sheās convinced itās safe, but because she knows itās right.
She didnāt believe in happily ever after. He just kept asking until she did.
š If youāve ever doubted whether you were worth choosingāand longed for someone who would wait, believe, and gently ask again⦠this story is yours.
A tender prequel to Nessa and Grantās love story, How to Wake a Sleeping Lady.