Harriet "Hattie" French speaks over a dozen languages-but none of them prepared her for this.
Seven years ago, Dowager Baroness Selwyn vanished without a trace. Now she's been declared dead, and her will is a masterpiece of meddling: Hattie, the first of the seven prodigies the baroness took under her wing during her prime, inherits Starling's Rest, the manor where they were honed from wayward fledglings into world-renowned talents.
That would be well and fine, but for the baron. The dowager baroness's taciturn and stormy nephew owns the land the house stands on.
The solution? Marriage. Orchestrated from beyond the grave by a woman who never met a prodigy she couldn't manipulate.
Elias Selwyn spent years proving he wasn't useless.
Elias fled Starling's Rest as soon as he was old enough and hasn't been back since. He left behind the pudgy, unremarkable child, with only a title to hold up against the sparkling genius of his foster siblings. In the years since, he forged himself into a disciplined cavalry officer, building a life far from the manor full of brilliant wards who made him feel invisible. The last thing he wants is to be dragged back to Brighton and shackled to the girl who once made him feel small-no matter how brilliant, beautiful, or infuriatingly fluent she's become.
But his aunt's will has one final demand: a reunion carnival showcase, performed under the pavilion where the Starling prodigies once dazzled crowds. It's meant to be her funeral. Instead, it becomes the stage where Hattie and Elias must reconcile years of rivalry, resentment, and feelings neither wants to name.
As old wounds resurface and buried secrets spark to life, the pair discovers that some inheritances can't be divided-and that together, they might just be stronger than they are apart.
Fluently Speaking Baron is a Regency romance full of forced proximity, childhood rivalry turned heat, and two people who never stopped mattering to each other. It's the first book in The Starling Legacy series and can be read as a standalone. If you love marriages of convenience, reunions that ache, witty banter, and love stories that build from bruised hearts to breathless joy-this one's for you.
外文書商品之書封，為出版社提供之樣本。實際出貨商品，以出版社所提供之現有版本為主。部份書籍，因出版社供應狀況特殊，匯率將依實際狀況做調整。
無庫存之商品，在您完成訂單程序之後，將以空運的方式為你下單調貨。為了縮短等待的時間，建議您將外文書與其他商品分開下單，以獲得最快的取貨速度，平均調貨時間為1~2個月。
為了保護您的權益，「三民網路書店」提供會員七日商品鑑賞期(收到商品為起始日)。
若要辦理退貨，請在商品鑑賞期內寄回，且商品必須是全新狀態與完整包裝(商品、附件、發票、隨貨贈品等)否則恕不接受退貨。
