{"id":17507,"date":"2025-08-13T02:41:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T16:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/suzilove.wordpress.com\/?p=17507"},"modified":"2025-08-12T18:34:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T08:34:42","slug":"drama-and-romance-at-the-dukes-snowbound-british-country-estate-in-december-mystery-familysaga-historicalromance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suzilove.com\/?p=17507","title":{"rendered":"Book Hooks: Drama and romance at the duke’s snowbound British country estate in December. #historicalmystery #FamilySaga #HistoricalRomance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Michael Brandon nodded. \u201cYes, I\u2019m related to Lord Brandon, Frederick, who disappeared four years ago.\u201d He faced the sick man. \u201cWe searched everywhere for you. Men scoured the streets of London for weeks after you disappeared, and then we widened our search. Ports, inns, the countryside, anywhere you might have gone. Or anywhere that you might have been taken if you\u2019d been kidnapped and held for ransom.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michael groaned. \u201cThree years of nothing. Not a sign. The police declared you a missing person, most likely deceased, and told us to wait out the seven years until we could officially declare you dead.\u201d He swiped at his eyes, brushing aside the gathering tears. He took Frederick\u2019s hand. \u201cBut we never gave up hope. None of us, and especially not mother.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tears trickled down Michael\u2019s cheek and he brushed them aside impatiently. He didn\u2019t care that everyone saw his raw grief. He only cared that his brother, if this shell of a man truly was his previously vibrant brother, heard his words and understood the truth in them. The heartache and sorrow that they\u2019d all carried for years. The pain they\u2019d suffered thinking they might never set eyes on Frederick again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYour mother \u2026\u201d His words caught as a sob escaped him, echoing the continuing sobbing from Melissa behind him. \u201cYour mother died a year ago, but her last words were a desperate plea for me to keep looking for you. To find you, and to bring you home.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michael watched tears trickle and run over the creases on the aged face before him, and he knew. This was Frederick, his constant companion during hundreds of childish escapades. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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