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Sommersgate House
Sommersgate House | Kristen Ashley
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Douglas Ashton is the cold and unfeeling owner of the gothic Victorian Mansion, Sommersgate House. Julia Fairfax is his stubborn American sister-in-law. After tragedy strikes, Douglas and Julia are forced to live together at Sommersgate and raise their newly orphaned nieces and nephew. Douglas has no desire to raise his dead sister’s children nor does he want the distraction of the tempting Julia living under his roof. Julia is struggling with grief and trying to make a go in a new country without much help from impossibly handsome but even more impossibly remote Douglas. Not to mention, she has to deal with the active hostility of Douglas’s frosty, Attila-the-Hun-in-a-skirt mother, Monique. Douglas decides the best way to give the children what they need, get his mother to behave and give himself what he wants is to marry Julia. When he tells her (yes, tells her) she will be his wife, Julia thinks Douglas is (probably) insane. And anyway, she’s decided if she ever has another husband (since the last one wasn’t so great), he was going to be short, balding, have a paunch and worship the ground she walks on (none of these characteristics define Douglas in the slightest). One more thing, Sommersgate House is haunted by the ghosts of the man who built the house and the woman who was the love of his life. They both died mysteriously at Sommersgate months after it was finished. When they did, a curse settled on the house making it seem strangely alive. And the only way for the beautiful but frightening house to rid itself of this curse is for its owner to find true love.
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Lauren_reading
Sommersgate House | Kristen Ashley
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There‘s just something comforting about a Kristen Ashley book. I read them when I‘m on emotional overload- so this time I picked up a new to me book.

Julia has moved to England to raise her nieces and nephew after her brother and sister-in-law passed, but she‘s co- raising them with Douglas, her stern, broody, sexy brother-in-law. There‘s plenty of drama and sweetness, some great secondary characters and a cursed house with the requisite ghosts.

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EloisaJames
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This is one of Kristen Ashley‘s early books (before, if you know her oeuvre, she got into motorcycle men). She used to write about British alphas in castles and the American women who brought them to their knees. This is totally bananas but I love it. Ghosts, great clothes, orphans, a Guy who is all that and always wrong...delicious! #escape #romantsy #ghost #paranormal

Jaya Couldn‘t do the MC stuff beyond a couple of books but might give this a chance 6y
EloisaJames @Jaya I‘m not a huge fan of her rougher heroes, but I do love the early aristocrats. 6y
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