The Heir in the Locked Wing

By Vera Lain

His name was hidden beneath her signature.

Twelve years ago, security specialist Cora Finch signed a Bellgrave transfer manifest. The papers listed archive boxes. A living man was concealed beneath the van floor.

Edmund Vane survived. He never forgot the woman who heard him knock and tried to stop the vehicle.

When a disconnected telephone leads Cora to Bellgrave's final wing, she finds Edmund injured, distrustful, and guarding a secret register that could expose a network of forced fathers, false marriages, and children moved between sealed estates. Someone has forged Cora's voice and signature. Someone has written Edmund into the records as Bellgrave's hidden heir.

The system offers them one path through: accept the roles chosen for them.

Cora refuses to become the mother, bride, or property named in the files. Edmund refuses to inherit the authority that imprisoned him. Yet every opened door pulls them deeper into the conspiracy, while the trust growing between them becomes the one choice Bellgrave cannot control.

To destroy the final claim, Cora and Edmund must uncover the truth about Edmund's origin, expose the people who turned family into a weapon, and build a relationship no house can own.

The Heir in the Locked Wing is a gothic romantic suspense novel featuring a competent security heroine, a wounded hidden heir, slow-burn trust, sealed estates, chosen family, and a hard-won romantic ending.

Book Four in the Bellgrave Vows series. Best read in series order.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H8NKFGXN
• ISBN13: 9798187053797
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 608 Pages
• Weight: 1.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"