The Widow in Mourning. The Dowager and The Duelist, #1

The Dowager and The Duelist 1: The Widow in MourningA steamy regency romance between a dowager countess and her fencing instructor. In the shadowed corridors of Merriweather Manor, mourning wears pearls and black silk. Lady Constance Merriweather, once the sharp-tongued darling of the ton, now drifts through her days as a respectable widow: dutiful, decorous, and dying by inches. Her husband is in the ground.
Her desires are buried deeper. Until he arrives. Rafael d'Astéran. Fencing master. Foreign. And utterly indecent. When Lady Merriweather catches a glimpse of him training in the garden, bare-chested, sweat-slick, commanding with blade and voice, something long-forgotten stirs inside her. Something wicked. Something wet. The foreign-accented instructor is younger, darker, and far beneath her station, but when his eyes meet hers across the rose maze, a silent duel begins - of will, of wit, of pure physical need.
The Dowager and The Duelist is a historical sensual romance that slices through societal expectation with the precision of a duelist's blade. Blending biting dialogue, forbidden longing, and gorgeously explicit encounters, this series delivers an age-gap romance that moans. Constance is no ingenue, and Rafael is no gentleman. Together, they'll shatter propriety, unlace corsets, and explore the tension between dominance and surrender in every breathless lesson.
For readers who crave: >Historical erotica with emotional bite >Older woman / younger man dynamics >Aristocratic repression giving way to raw indulgence >High-heat scenes with lush, literary prose >Foreign lovers, stern commands, and utterly ruined silk sheetsWelcome to Merriweather Manor, where desire blooms in the hedgerows and a dowager's hunger is far more dangerous than any sword. Warning: For mature readers only:18+