title: Merrywood Hall
author: Ryder, James
description: A gay historical romance novel.
  Tom Archer has only known the quiet life of a footman at Merrywood Hall. He has certainly never known true love. Jack Curtis is rough and rugged, a streetwise lad from the workhouse who’s too guarded to let anyone in. Tom doesn’t know how to handle Jack and his complete lack of deference to the noble Merrywood family. But their intense attraction to each other can’t be denied and spills over one night in the hay barn during a tempestuous rainstorm.
  Yet as servants at the Hall, pursuing their love is forbidden and made especially difficult by the Honourable Edward Merrywood, son and heir to the vast estate. Edward is a bitter and arrogant man possessed by an unyielding desire for Tom, and he won’t watch him belong to anyone else. Edward is willing to go to any lengths, including murder, to make sure he can keep Tom to himself. It’s an obsession that haunts all three men for years, from the aristocratic world of an English country mansion to the muddy trenches of the Great War.
  From the author of Dream Lover and Carver’s Cove comes a gay historical romance novel about the battles fought in the name of love. Merrywood Hall is a heart—wrenching story of desire and jealousy, of obsession and survival.