THE PURSUITS OF LORD KIT CAVANAUGH

When Lord Christopher "Kit" Cavanaugh launches a yacht-building company, he inadvertently displaces a school run by Sylvia Buckleberry, a bridesmaid from his brother's wedding. As the two fight mysterious enemies to keep both ventures progressing, their negative first impressions give way to tender feelings.

Realizing his passion for sailing could be directed into a business, Kit prepares to take “his first true step into the future he was determined to craft and claim.” Unfortunately, when he rents warehouse space in Bristol’s dock area, he’s unaware that it will effectively kick a school out of the building. When the school’s director confronts him, they recognize each other from his brother’s wedding, where vicar’s daughter Sylvia served as a bridesmaid. Sylvia knows Kit as a feckless aristocrat from her season, and she impressed Kit at the wedding as cold, rigid, and distant. He is stunned by the impassioned advocate who demands his intervention. For Kit, sponsoring a new space for the school is the right thing to do, but it also garners community good will and, thanks to the students’ connections, introduces him to a wealth of skilled but unemployed tradesmen, since the shipbuilding industry has shifted to iron while his yachts will be built from wood. Getting his enterprise off the ground and the school settled keeps Kit and Sylvia close, yet as their feelings toward each other shift into a courtship, a series of dangerous attacks against her school and his workshop escalate. Longtime romance favorite Laurens continues the Cavanaugh series by connecting two figures who demonstrate courage and discernment in presenting their true selves and looking beyond their initial misconceptions in order to find happiness.

Laurens’ subtle nods to forgiveness, community-building, and second chances lend extra character and warmth to a winning love story.