Black Leather, White Lace: Vernon (Hosts To Ghosts, #1)

Vernon and Nathaniel Heatherington are brothers on opposite sides in the English Civil War. When they duel, each slaughters the other, and they are forced to haunt their old home, Rustead Abbey, until they have expiated their sin.
Vernon Heatherington falls in love with the Regency Countess of Rustead, Cassandra. He is her only comfort in her unhappy marriage to a brutal husband, but Vernon has only one day of corporeal form a year. He swears to come back every year, but that doesn’t leave t...