Douglas Ashton is the cold and unfeeling owner of the sprawling, gothic Victorian Mansion, Sommersgate House.
And as she keeps growing up, it keeps getting better..
Needless to say, living in a House full of music, clothes and love was a good way to grow up.
They lived on a very small farm in a small town in the heartland and existed amongst the strains of Glenn Miller, The Everly Brothers, REO Speedwagon and Whitesnake (and the wardrobes that matched).
Kristen was raised in a House with a large and multi-generational family.
Her posse is loopy (to say the least), but loopy is good when you want to write.
Thus she\'s been blessed to have friends and family around the globe.
She grew up in Indiana, but has lived in Colorado and the West Country of England.
About the Author: Kristen Ashley is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author.
And the only way for the beautiful but frightening House to rid itself of this curse is for its owner to find true love.
When they did, a curse settled on the House making it seem strangely alive.
They both died mysteriously at Sommersgate months after it was finished.
One more thing, Sommersgate House is haunted by the ghosts of the man who built it and the woman who was the love of his life.
And anyway, she\'s decided if she ever has another husband (since the last one wasn\'t so great), he was going to be short, balding, have a paunch and worship the ground she walks on (none of these characteristics define Douglas in the slightest).
When he tells her (yes, tells her) she will be his wife, Julia thinks Douglas is (probably) insane.
Douglas decides the best way to give the children what they need, get his mother to behave and give himself what he wants is to marry Julia.
Not to mention, she has to deal with the active hostility of Douglas\'s frosty, Attila-the-Hun-in-a-skirt mother, Monique.
Julia is struggling with grief and trying to make a go in a new country without much help from impossibly handsome but even more impossibly remote Douglas.
Douglas has no desire to raise his dead sister\'s children nor does he want the distraction of the tempting Julia living under his roof.
After tragedy strikes, Douglas and Julia are forced to live together at Sommersgate and raise their newly-orphaned nieces and nephew.
Julia Fairfax is his stubborn American sister-in-law.
Douglas Ashton is the cold and unfeeling owner of the sprawling, gothic Victorian Mansion, Sommersgate House
