How to Live Happily Ever After: Prequel
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She was certain love wasnât meant for her. He asked seventeen times to prove otherwise. Agnes Bottombrook has spent nine-and-twenty years quietly watching life pass by. Sheâs accepted her placeâa spinster, unnoticed and unremarkableâcontent to keep her heart safe behind skepticism and sense. Sheâs learned to question everyoneâs intentions⌠especially the charming ones.
Then Lord Wentford asked her to danceâand didnât stop asking. Grant Wentford doesnât hesitate. The moment he meets Agnes, he knows. Sheâs not a wager or a whimâsheâs his future. And when she doubts, he proposes. Again and again. Seventeen times, each one gentler than the last. Until something softens inside her, and she wonders if maybe love isnât foolish after all.
She guards her heart. He lays his bare. And somewhere between fear and certainty⌠they begin. Grantâs persistence doesnât feel like pressureâit feels like hope. The slow bloom of something Agnes thought sheâd never have. And once she sees where her path is meant to lead, she chooses itânot because sheâs convinced itâs safe, but because she knows itâs right.
She didnât believe in happily ever after. He just kept asking until she did.
đ If youâve ever doubted whether you were worth choosingâand longed for someone who would wait, believe, and gently ask again⌠this story is yours.
A tender prequel to Nessa and Grantâs love story, How to Wake a Sleeping Lady.
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đ About Me
Hi, Iâm Bree Wolfâa USA Today bestselling author, former academic, and life-long lover of stories. I studied English and Specialized Translation, wandered the halls of universities, spending more years than I should have trying to be reasonable.
Eventually, that quiet, persistent voice in my head said: Itâs time to write. Iâve since published over fifty historical romances, each one stitched together from pieces of my own heart: doubts, regrets, fears, and messy, hopeful dreams.
I love chocolate (especially when chapters get emotional), cry far too easily at my keyboard, and have a deep spiritual bond with cats⌠which is tragically one-sided, as Iâm terribly allergic. A lifelong heartbreak, truly.
đ About What I Write
I write love storiesânot the tidy kind with perfect timing and easy resolution.
My stories are about the hearts that ache a little louder, fall a little later, and carry more than they ever expected to. Youâll meet heroines whoâve been hurt, heroes who protect with patience, and love that heals in slow, steady pulses.
Whether set in Englandâs ballrooms, Scotlandâs wild highlands, or time-tossed ruins, these are journeys of emotional courage. Theyâre layered, sincere, and full of the kind of hope you find after everything else. My romances arenât escapeâtheyâre refuge.
â¤ď¸ About Why I Write
At their core, my books are love lettersâto anyone whoâs ever doubted they were enough, struggled to be seen, or wondered if healing would ever come. I draw from personal experience, yesâbut mostly I write for connection. For restoration. For the reader flipping pages late into the night, whispering please let them be okay.
My settings shiftâRegency England, Scottish Highlands, sometimes a little magicâbut the heartbeat stays the same: tenderness. Bravery. Love that doesnât fix you, but walks with you while you become who you were meant to be.
And if any part of my stories finds a place in your own⌠then Iâve written what I was meant to.
