Cat's Cradle

A Regency Novella After winning a manor house, Sir Ashten Ravenhill wants only to repair it, sell, and be on his way again. But a cat and her kittens--and the cat's owner, a lovely widow--overturn all his plans. Soon he's tangled in a cat's cradle--but will Emaline and her sons be enough to make him change his wandering ways? Emaline Adair Pearson has seen her cousin gamble away the family manor house--and as a vicar's widow she frowns on any form of sin. When a harden gamester moves into the neighborhood, she plans to have nothing to do with him. But when her cat has her kittens in the manor house, Emaline finds herself forced into Sir Ashten's company--and she finds the man to be far more attractive and honorable than she'd anticipated. She knows he will not stay--but she finds herself wondering what she would answer if he asked her to come with him.