Sommersgate House

Douglas Ashton is the cold and unfeeling owner of the sprawling, beautiful, gothic, Victorian Mansion, Sommersgate House. Julia Fairfax is his stubborn American sister in law. After traged! stri"es, Douglas and Julia are forced to li#e together at Sommersgate and raise their newl! orphaned nieces and nephew. Douglas has no desire to raise his dead sister$s children nor does he want the distraction of the tempting Julia li#ing under his roof. Julia is struggling with grief for her dead brother and his wife and is tr!ing to ma"e a go in a new countr! without much help from impossibl! handsome but e#en more impossibl! remote Douglas. %ot to mention, she has to deal with the acti#e hostilit! of Douglas$s frost!, Attila the Hun in a s"irt mother, Moni&ue. Douglas decides the best wa! to gi#e the children what the! need, get his mother to beha#e and gi#e himself what he wants is to marr! Julia. 'hen he tells her (!es, tells her) she will be his wife, Julia thin"s Douglas is (probabl!) insane. And an!wa!, she$s decided if she e#er has another husband (since the last one wasn$t so great), he was going to be short, balding, ha#e a paunch and worship the ground she wal"s on (none of these characteristics define Douglas in the slightest). *ne more thing, Sommersgate House is haunted b! the ghosts of the man who built the house and the woman who was the lo#e of his life. +he! both died m!steriousl! at Sommersgate months after it was finished. 'hen the! did, a curse settled on the house ma"ing it seem strangel! ali#e. And the onl! wa! for the beautiful but frightening house to rid itself of this curse is for its owner to find true lo#e.