Ladies of Ashcroft Castle [Mastering Lady Macalister: Compromising Lady Ava] (Siren Publishing Classic)

Mastering Lady Macalister [Siren Classic: Erotic Historical Romance] Lady Ainsley Macalister has fallen on hard times. Her brother gambled away the family fortune and their ancestral home. Now she's expected to marry Ashcroft Castle's new owner, sight unseen. Dechlan Ross grew up as a stableboy at Ashcroft Castle. Ousted at eighteen for daring to kiss Ainsley, he's back seven years later for revenge...and something more. In the stables, on the bluffs, and in the dungeons they had played in as children, Dechlan shows Ainsley who is master now. Meanwhile, Dechlan's tough American second-in-command, Charlie Wilson, sees the truth about the neighboring Lord Winslow that he has been hiding even from himself, much to Winslow's tortured delight. In the ancient castle high above the North Sea, Dechlan and Ainsley grapple with a past that is fraught with misunderstandings, a present that is filled with desire, and a future that unseen forces are desperate to see does not repeat the tragedies of the past. ** Compromising Lady Ava [Siren Classic: Erotic Regency Romance, with M/M elements not involving hero, HEA] When Ava Wilson travels to Northumberland to meet her estranged uncle, he doesn't seem like the "Satan incarnate" that her late father painted him to be. He lives in a straight-from-the-pages-of-a-gothic-novel castle, working for the very rich Dechlan Ross. Their neighbor, Lord Winslow, is friendly and dashing and the stuff of every girl's dreams. So what is she missing? Sinjun Banks is there to do renovations on Ashcroft Castle, but what he'd really like to work on is Ava. Too bad the bewitching beauty has set her sights higher for the golden Lord Winslow, a lesson on the lure of the aristocracy that Sinjun has already bitterly learned. When Ava witnesses something through the window of Winslow Manor that drives her into Sinjun's arms, he grapples with whether to compromise her just because she's begging him to do it. Oh, and because he's dying to as well. ** A Siren Erotic Romance