Lord Somerton's Heir

Alison Stuart

Mar 2026 · Bolinda · Narrated by Amanda McKay

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10 hr 47 min

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From the smoke-filled chaos of Waterloo to the elegant halls of Brantstone Hall, Captain Sebastian Alder finds his world transformed overnight when he inherits the Somerton viscountcy. Yet his fairytale elevation masks a grim reality – crumbling estates, mounting debts and the disturbing questions surrounding his cousin's untimely demise. With a killer potentially still at large, Sebastian must trade the straightforward perils of battle for the treacherous maze of aristocratic intrigue. Isabel, the dowager Lady Somerton, believed her nightmare ended with her husband's death. Instead of freedom to establish her long-desired charity school, she discovers a cruel final betrayal – left destitute and still tethered to the Somerton name through her husband's enigmatic successor. When Sebastian and Isabel's paths collide, neither expects the spark that ignites between them. But as suspicions mount and secrets unravel, can they trust their growing feelings? Or will the shadow of murder destroy their chance at happiness before it truly begins?

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Alison Stuart is an award-winning Australian author who writes historical romances and short stories set in England and Australia and across different periods of history. She is best known for The Postmistress, The Goldminer's Sister and The Homecoming, stories set in the Victorian goldfields in the 1870s. The Homecoming won the Australian Romance Readers Award for Favourite Historical Romance in 2023, while The Postmistress was nominated in the 2019 Australian Romance Readers Awards and rose to #36 in on the 2020 Better Reading Top 100 list. Stuart also writes historical mysteries as A.M. Stuart and her popular Harriet Gordon mystery series is set in Singapore in 1910. She currently lives in Melbourne, Australia.

Amanda McKay is an actor and TV and radio presenter based in Melbourne. After training at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London she has gone on to appear in an array of stage shows, TV series’, films and corporate videos. Her credits include INXS: Never Tears Us Apart and The Secret River for TV, and As You Like It, The Taming on the Shrew and Yes, Yes, Yes! for stage. Amanda has also narrated The Silk House by Kayte Nunn and Fallen: The Inside Story of Cardinal George Pell.

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