THE PURSUITS OF LORD KIT CAVANAUGH

When Lord Christopher “Kit” Cavanaugh launches a
yacht-building company, he inadvertently displaces a school run by Sylvia
Buckleberry, a bridesmaid from his brother’s wedding. As the two fight
mysterious enemies to keep both ventures progressing, their negative first
impressions give way to tender feelings.

Realizing his passion for sailing could be directed into a
business, Kit prepares to take “his first true step into the future he was
determined to craft and claim.” Unfortunately, when he rents warehouse space in
Bristol’s dock area, he’s unaware that it will effectively kick a school out of
the building. When the school’s director confronts him, they recognize each
other from his brother’s wedding, where vicar’s daughter Sylvia served as a
bridesmaid. Sylvia knows Kit as a feckless aristocrat from her season, and she
impressed Kit at the wedding as cold, rigid, and distant. He is stunned by the
impassioned advocate who demands his intervention. For Kit, sponsoring a new
space for the school is the right thing to do, but it also garners
community good will and, thanks to the students’ connections, introduces him to
a wealth of skilled but unemployed tradesmen, since the shipbuilding industry
has shifted to iron while his yachts will be built from wood. Getting his
enterprise off the ground and the school settled keeps Kit and Sylvia close,
yet as their feelings toward each other shift into a courtship, a series of
dangerous attacks against her school and his workshop escalate. Longtime
romance favorite Laurens continues the Cavanaugh series by connecting two
figures who demonstrate courage and discernment in presenting their true selves
and looking beyond their initial misconceptions in order to find
happiness.