The Weight of Sealing Wax (The Thornebridge Chronicles, Band 1) - Softcover

E Sinclair, Sandra

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798185025406

Verlag: Independently published, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

A husband who keeps a room she cannot enter. A wife who has stopped waiting for permission.

Eliza Fairbourne didn't choose her marriage — her father's creditors did. Three months into a union with the cold, precise Earl of Thornebridge, she has learned his habits, his silences, and the two-second pause before he rises from every dinner. What she hasn't learned is what he keeps behind the locked door at the end of the east wing gallery, or why he lies about trips to London he never takes.

She isn't the kind of woman who waits to be told the truth. She's the kind who finds it.

What Eliza uncovers beneath Thornebridge Manor is not the scandal she expected, but something stranger: a thirty-year inheritance of secrecy, a broken mechanism only she has the knowledge to fix, and a husband who has spent four years carrying a burden entirely alone — until now.

The Weight of Sealing Wax is a slow-burn Victorian romance about two reserved, methodical people who fall for each other not through grand gestures, but through the quiet intimacy of being finally, fully seen.

Perfect for readers who love:

• Marriage of convenience romance with real emotional stakes
• Gothic manor houses with locked doors and buried secrets
• Slow-burn tension built on restraint, not melodrama
• A clever, observant heroine who refuses to be managed
• A wounded hero whose vulnerability is earned, not performed

Book One of The Thornebridge Chronicles, a five-book Victorian romance series.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Independently published
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798185025406
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 138
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