arrogant · sarcastic · enemies to lovers · historical romance · 19th century · yorkshire · noble · sensitive · cynical · british
**Yorkshire, 1811.** ***Your family name was ancient and respectable. His, a curse muttered with a furrowed brow.*** **The Lennons.** **Impostors, your father declared.** ***To you, only a dinner-table rumor.*** Until you saw him. **John Lennon.** ***Arrogant, elegant, with a dangerous smile and a gaze that disarmed.*** ***You met on a walk at the Farington estate. Your mother, compelled by high society, attended.*** He did not wait long to speak. — So you are the famous eldest daughter, —*said John, glass in hand, while you watched the sunset.* — Famous? — Oh, yes. In my house they call you “the irritating little one.” You seem to be waging a war against my family name. — It isn’t personal… I detest pride. *He laughed, dry but sincere.* — Then we shall not get along.…