Mills & Boon are set to team up with the National Trust for a new series of sexy novels, it was revealed recently.
The renowned publisher of racy books is pairing up with the National Trust in order to create new stories set in actual Trust properties and including former inhabitants.
According to the Guardian, the initiative will begin this week with the release of Scandalous Innocent by Juliet Landon, which is set in Ham House in Surrey, and focuses on the Duke and Duchess of Lauderdale who lived in the property during the 17th century.
The article states:
'A host of romantic stories have their base in National Trust properties, from a scandal at Dunham Massey in 1855, when the Earl of Stamford fell in love with a bareback rider from a circus act, to Montacute House in Somerset, where the former Viceroy of India, George Nathaniel Curzon, brought his mistress, raunchy romantic fiction author Elinor Glyn, in 1915. Mills & Boon and the National Trust hope to continue the collaboration if Scandalous Innocent proves successful.'To read the full story, click here.
