A Bachelor Husband

Marie Chester has loved Christopher Lawless since the day he arrived at her childhood home an orphaned boy, all long limbs and careless 命令. She became his willing servant, his shadow, his biggest fan. He called her a nuisance. He looked at her with something close to contempt. But they were not brother and sister, not really - just two fatherless children raised under one roof, one destined to adore and one destined to ignore. When their fathers die and their inheritance ties them together in marriage, Marie thinks perhaps now, finally, he might see her. He doesn't. What follows is a quiet devastation: a woman trapped in a house with a man who barely acknowledges her presence, nursing a love that has no hope of being returned. It's a romance steeped in the particular heartbreak of wanting someone who is right there, yet impossibly far away. For readers who savor the slow burns of early 20th-century fiction, where emotion simmers beneath propriety and longing goes unspoken.