A Sonata for the Evening Star – Paperback

He has lost the inheritance he never wanted. She could lose her faith in the man she trusts most. Together, they must uncover the secret that began it all.

For seven years, Mr. Sebastian Carrow has been the spare in his aunt’s household: an inconvenient heir, a theatre composer of doubtful respectability, and now the last unmarried member of the family. When his cousin’s son is born, his place in the succession disappears.

He still has his music. He is less certain where he belongs.

Miss Sophia Ashby has no such doubts about her calling. The finest English soprano at the King’s Theatre, she is paid, public and proud. She has already refused two gentlemen who expected her to give up singing. Any man who hopes to win her must understand that her voice is her own.

But Sophia’s grandfather has kept the Ormond Square family’s oldest secret for thirty years-and she believes he was right to do so.

Then a sealed letter from the late Viscount vanishes from the place his lawyer insists he left it: “with the music.”

Finding it means returning to the night a young woman waited in a Bath ballroom for someone who never came.

Through November rain, Sebastian and Sophia follow the clues to Trim Street, an old man’s cabinet, and the Upper Rooms. As their search draws them closer, it unsettles everything they thought they knew about the people who raised them.

Sophia must question the grandfather she loves. Sebastian must discover whether the family has room for him simply as himself. And both must decide what sort of future they can make once the truth is finally spoken.

A Sonata for the Evening Star brings The Ormond Square Duets to its heartfelt conclusion: a lost letter read beneath a painted star, a sonata restored to its true composer, a proposal beneath a skylight, and every couple gathered at one table for Christmas.

The ninth and final book in a clean and wholesome Regency romance series, with a gentle mystery, no explicit content, and a happy ending assured.