Lady Elinor's Escape

"Linda McLaughlin has done a wonderful job… I highly recommend LADY ELINOR'S ESCAPE to all lovers of traditional Regency romance." - Chere, Romance Junkies

Lady Elinor Ashworth always longed for adventure, but when she runs away from her abusive aunt, she finds more than she bargained for. Elinor fears her aunt who is irrational and dangerous, threatening Elinor and anyone she associates with. When she encounters an inquisitive gentleman, she accepts his help, but fearing for his safety, hides her identity by pretending to be a seamstress. She resists his every attempt to draw her out, all the while fighting her attraction to him.

There are too many women in barrister Stephen Chaplin's life, but he has never been able to turn his back on a damsel in distress. The younger son of a baronet is a rescuer of troubled females, an unusual vocation fueled guilt over his failure to save the woman he loved from her brutal husband. He cannot help falling in love with his secretive seamstress, but to his dismay, the truth of her background reveals Stephen as the ineligible party.

Finalist, Regency Category, 2005 Golden Quill Contest, sponsored by the Desert Rose Chapter of RWA

"An irrepressible heroine - an irresistible hero - intriguing secondary characters and plot twists! Lady Elinor's Escape is all a Regency fan could hope for." - Helen Haddad, Author