The Gentleman and the Spy: A Victorian MM Romance: Class Differences, Slow Burn Longing, and High-Stakes Espionage (Ormond Yard Romantic Adventures Book 1)

After his father’s death, Lord Magnus Dawson faces the unthinkable—earning a living. Raised to a life of privilege and polished idleness, he has only his cavalry training and a dwindling allowance to his name. Marriage of convenience seems his only path…until the Foreign Office offers him a chance at purpose. Toby Marsh has even fewer options. A brilliant scholarship student at Cambridge, he was forced into the humiliating role of valet-slash-tutor to a spoiled aristocrat after his own father’s sudden death. Now he scrapes by as a freelance tutor, constantly one missed lesson away from ruin. When the Foreign Office recruits Toby for a covert assignment, he accepts—no matter the danger. Their mission requires them to pose as lord and valet at a country house party filled with secrets, spies, and international intrigue. Toby disdains the arrogant nobleman he’s ordered to serve, and Magnus can’t stop treating Toby like the help. But as they’re drawn deeper into deception and danger, a powerful slow-burn attraction sparks between them. Can a disgraced lord and a self-made valet imagine a future together in a world where class, culture, and duty forbid their love? Or will the truth they uncover—and the feelings they can’t deny—destroy them both? The Gentleman and the Spy is an 83,000-word Victorian MM romance featuring: a lord/valet class-difference pairing forced proximity at a country house party slow-burn longing and forbidden attraction espionage, mystery, and international intrigue a hard-won, deeply earned HEA Perfect for readers who love danger, desire, and sweeping historical MM romance. And readers of KJ Charles, Cat Sebastian, and Merry Farmer