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Lead and Sea Lavender
Paperback
Series: The Sea Lavender Saga, Book 1
Publisher: Maddie Piper
Published: Sep 29 2026
Pages: 174
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
He has come to prove her father a thief. Falling in love with her would be a most inconvenient mistake.
Miss Judith Quennell keeps the accounts, the keys, and the peace at Sea Lavender House. At twenty-eight, she considers herself comfortably beyond romantic expectations. Her family of nine provides quite enough affection, argument, and unfinished business.
Then a fashionable yacht breaks apart on Hamstead Ledge, and her orderly world washes ashore with it.
By morning, every bedroom holds a stranded aristocrat, the creek is littered with salvaged cargo, and a cache of contraband lace bears a troubling clue: lead seals made with the very stamp her father, a Riding Officer of Customs, lost under suspicion ten years before.
Mr. Adam Severn arrives from London with precise habits, limited means, and every intention of proving her father guilty. He expects evasions. He does not expect Judith-a woman who corrects his arithmetic, spots what trained officials overlook, and meets his solemn questions with disconcerting good sense.
Unfortunately, she is also the last woman he ought to admire.
With the whole parish counting their walks along the sea wall, every kindness risks looking like bribery. Judith cannot afford to trust the man investigating her father. Adam cannot afford to let affection influence his judgment.
But someone has kept a secret for ten years. As Judith and Adam follow the evidence through the island's tangled loyalties, the truth may clear her father-or reopen a wound neither of them knew was there.
And Judith may have to reconsider the future she thought she had settled.
Set amid the tides, oyster beds, and salt pans of the Isle of Wight in 1816, Lead and Sea Lavender begins the Sea Lavender Saga: a clean, wholesome Regency romance with a gentle domestic mystery, a loving, quarrelsome blended family, no explicit content, and a happy ending assured.
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