Danvers Series In Book Order
Book One
Born to a wealthy titled family, an only child, Lord Simon Danvers married for love, hoping for many children. It was not to be. Fate gave him one child, a daughter he adored and indulged. He became guardian to his cousin’s son. about the time he discovered his Butler’s son possessed an unusual phenomenon with numbers. Simon took the boy as his ward educating him, provided him to all intents a place as a son. He soon began to turn his mind to entrepreneurial ambitions.
Book Two
Indulged only child of wealthy, powerful Lord Simon Danvers Annabella’s social confidence, mercurial mind and impulsiveness led her into a compromised, passionless marriage and a child.
Fate intervened widowing her, giving her hope she may re-discover her first love.
Book Three
Widowed with a son, Benjamin inherited from his French wife for whom he had accepted disinheritance from his father, a thriving vineyard in Bordeaux, France. His son was living in England with his cousin Lord Simon Danvers. A promise he had made to his wife, to educate their son in England where perhaps he may become united with his grandfather. Persuaded to visit the home of his cousin in England out of their twice yearly routine, he met Lady Olivia, a withdrawn, damaged woman, who had befriended his son, through heir mutual love of piano music.
Returning to Bordeaux he came to realise he had some time ago ceased his years of grieving … He wanted Olivia in his life. He wanted a second chance.
Book Four
Thomas, son of Lord Simon Danvers butler was granted an Oxford University education. Later a business partnership, wealth and status thanks to his gift with numbers
He was destined to become the power behind the House of Danvers. The son Lord Danvers longed for.
A business exploration to New York complicated his long planned life when he formed an attachment to an young American woman. A distant relative to Lady Jane ~ Simon’s wife.
His brain said no, his body was reluctant to listen. She was determined to capture him.
Book Five
At twenty years of age, living in the country, Andrew is a wealthy, bore, angry young man. He is summons to London by his grandfather Lord Simon Danvers, to learn of the financial world. London offered escape from his possessive, clinging mother who stifled his wish to move forward in his life. He did not relish the role he would be groomed to follow, that of heir to his grandfather’s empire. It was not what he would choose. He wished to become an artist, a man seen for himself, not seen, and sought as “the heir.”
He tumbled into his first sexual affair, forgetting in his absorption a promise made to a young girl living at The Academy for Young Ladies, that he would ensure her safety and well being. The care of his illegitimate son became the focus of his life. Only the discovery of incorrectly directed correspondence recalled his interview with the girl, his guarantee she would be in the care of the House of Danvers.
Confronted with his neglect when he found her, now a young woman, starving and beaten, living in an orphanage, his life began to change, resolving his indecision and procrastination as he matured to become the man his grandfather saw in him. His path began to be clear.
