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The Stanton Legacy, Book 4

The Viscount’s Forbidden Love

“I want you, Ambrose, and I am unashamed to say it.”

Daniel Stanton is used to getting whatever he wants. Ambrose Cranshaw knows one careless glance could cost him everything. A historical MM romance full of yearning, angst and steam.

  • MM romance
  • Forbidden love
  • Slow burn
  • Wealthy heir & steward
  • Victorian England
  • Open-door steam

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Why readers can’t put it down

Longing, jealousy and tension that builds page by page, and a happy ending that is hard won.

The heir who gets what he wants

Daniel is charming, confident and devastatingly handsome. Then he meets a man who says no.

The steward who can’t say yes

Ambrose has built his life through sheer determination. He knows exactly what one moment of weakness could cost.

Yearning, angst and steam

Repressed feelings, jealousy and attraction that readers call palpable from the very first meeting.

A fitting finale

The concluding novel in The Stanton Legacy, with a hard-won happy ending.

What Daniel wants, Daniel usually gets. Not this time.

Daniel Stanton has been blessed with everything. Charming, confident, and devastatingly handsome, he is the heir to the great Stanton fortune, and accustomed to getting whatever he desires. At four-and-twenty, he has enjoyed more than his share of amorous adventures, including one tantalising encounter with a man that left him questioning his true inclinations.

Those questions are answered the moment he meets Ambrose Cranshaw, his grandfather’s estate manager. Daniel wants him. And what Daniel wants, he usually gets.

Not this time.

Ambrose Cranshaw is everything Daniel is not. With no fortune and no influential connections, he has worked tirelessly to support himself and his younger sister, earning his position through sheer determination. Though he harbours forbidden longings of his own, Ambrose knows better than to act upon them. The risks are far too great.

From their first meeting, Ambrose recognises Daniel as a danger to everything he has built. One careless glance, one moment of weakness, could bring his carefully ordered life crashing down. And so, at all costs, Ambrose must hide the feelings he dares not reveal.

The Viscount’s Forbidden Love is the concluding novel in The Stanton Legacy series, an MM historical romance set in Victorian England, filled with yearning, angst, and steam, and featuring a hard-won happy ending. While it can be read as a standalone, it is best enjoyed as part of the series.

What readers are saying

Five-star feeling, straight from the reviews.

Watching these men finding themselves, each other and finally a way to navigate a world that won’t accept them. A beautiful romance and a fitting end to this series!

Alexandra, Goodreads

What a finish for this exhilarating series. Full of love, sadness and action.

Rose, Goodreads

Daniel and Ambrose’s slow-burn love story is full of repressed feelings, longing, jealousy and spice.

Marion, Goodreads

A slow burn romance with lots of angst and tension, written with real sensitivity.

Debbie, Goodreads

Very angsty. This was emotional in so many ways, a beautiful story of forbidden love.

Barbie Box, Goodreads

Oh I loved this. It’s written perfectly for the time it’s set in and is a really really good read.

Sazzy, Goodreads

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