The Road To Winterhill: Regency Romance

Society shuns Belinda Presleigh when her mother's scheme results in a forced offer of marriage from the Earl of Berrington, the man Belinda loves in secret. In the silence of St. George's Cathedral, the clergyman's voice rang out unnaturally loud: "Do you, Richard Branston, Earl of Berrington, take this woman, Belinda Presleigh, of Hunsley Manor, as your lawful wedded wife, to love and honor until death do you part?" The few wedding guests crowding around them waited for Berrington's response, which was long in coming. Belinda saw their smirks and heard their muffled laughter. She felt the sting of tears in her eyes at the long pause and realized she could not undo what she had done. The awful deed had come to roost in her heart. She wished he would say no. She'd rather be jilted than that awful hesitation in which everyone looked at each other, some with smirks of "I told you so." Finally, Lord Berrington's voice rang out-loud, impatient and clear: "I do." After the awful wedding breakfast, Belinda endured the silence inside the elegant carriage as she and her husband, the Earl of Berrington, traveled on their three-day journey to his county seat, Winterhill. Belinda wished she were dead like her sister Roselle, rather than live a life that promised to be a basket of thorns...

Author Gloria Gay’s love of painting and writing has always been entwined in her life. Her debut novel, First Season, earned a four-star review from Romantic Times Book Review. She recently published a Regency romance entitled, ＂Enchanted Summer＂ as well as a time travel romance entitled ＂A Bridge Through Time.＂ Boroughs Publishing Group published her Regency historical romances, Scandal at Almack’s and Lovely Little Liar. Gloria and her husband Enrique, an architect, have three grown children and six grand-children and they are lucky to have them all living near them in San Diego, California.