Ladies in Hating

Lady Georgiana Cleeve has fame and money as a Gothic novelist, and she also has an enemy. A rival writing as Lady Darling keeps publishing spine-tingling plots that seem lifted from Georgiana's own manuscripts. Stubborn and sure of herself, Georgiana sets out to unmask the thief.

The unmasking goes wrong. Lady Darling turns out to be Cat Lacey, the butler's daughter, whom Georgiana once adored in a teenage infatuation she has kept very secret ever since.

Cat has spent ten years pulling her family out of poverty and has no room for distractions, least of all a beautiful and rather pretentious lady. She cannot shake her rival, though. Both women plan to set their next books in the same eerie manor, and both turn up there.

Then they are trapped inside together, with ghostly moans and spectral staff for company. This is a Regency sapphic romance with an enemies-to-lovers dynamic, a comic Gothic atmosphere and an open-door heat level. The danger that matters most is the passion that has shadowed their rivalry from the start.