The Companion's Account: 6

Verity Colborne has kept Mrs. Marlowe's household accounts for three years, and not one column has ever failed to agree with itself. But when a series of accidents begins striking Marlowe's Mill, and a good man is dismissed on suspicion alone, Verity discovers that her quiet talent for figures is about to be tested by rather more than candle money.Edward Marlowe left for Leeds to build a life in the law. He comes home a solicitor, and finds a mill full of frightened workers, a family's fortune quietly bleeding away, and a companion who adds up every sum twice before she trusts it: exactly the sort of ally he needs to learn who is sabotaging his father's mill from the inside.Their investigation uncovers a fraud more calculated than either of them expected, hidden behind an old friend's easy smile and a business partner's careful books. As the true culprit grows more desperate, and an innocent man's name hangs in the balance, Verity and Edward must trust each other with more than the household's secrets, before the account comes due for all of them.A companion who trusts nothing she has not checked twice. A solicitor determined to clear an innocent man. And a fraud clever enough to hide behind a mill's own honest figures. THE COMPANION'S ACCOUNT is Book Six in the Regency Romance Series: a clean, slow burn mystery romance for readers who like their happily ever afters earned column by column.