He is not just a man. He is the beast that haunts the moors…
… and the only one who can protect her from the lurking danger.
A sensual Gothic Regency romance about a gruff earl tormented by a beast within and the sensible woman hired as a companion to his mother. He means to remain in control but her presence awakens something wild.
She does not believe in monsters.
When Miss Verity Hale accepts a post at the remote Blackfen Hall, she expects cold stone and colder company. Not whispers of disappearances in the village, or rumors of the master who never leaves his lands. Intense, and undeniably magnetic, the villagers say he is cursed. But Verity sees the soul behind the scowl… and the aching loneliness he tries so hard to hide.
He knows better than to hope.
Lucien Northwood, Earl of Blackfen, has spent years in isolation, locked in battle with a hunger that claws at him each full moon. But Verity's calm defiance chips away at the walls he has built and the beast is not the only part of him that longs for her.
When a savage attack on the estate leaves blood on the snow and questions in its wake, Lydia is drawn into a dangerous secret—that the Earl is not entirely human. Each moon calls to the predator within him, and each day, he fights the instinct that tells him to claim her as his mate.
But desire is harder to cage. And with hunters closing in and the full moon rising, Lucien must decide. Will he be the beast he dreads… or the protector she needs?
Earl Alpha is book 3 of the Midnight Brides series—standalone sensual Gothic Regency romances where monsters hide in plain sight, love demands courage, and redemption is hard-won. Each book guarantees an emotionally satisfying happily-ever-after.
