Circle of Friends Series by E.G. Lyton

In Regency England Sebastian Worthing has no choice but to sell himself to the highest bidder. With his father dead in a rather public suicide; his fortune lost and his brother Harmon missing in the Iberian peninsula, it falls to nineteen-year-old Sebastian to restore the family fortunes and provide some semblance of security for his mother and four sisters... moreIn Regency England Sebastian Worthing has no choice but to sell himself to the highest bidder. With his father dead in a rather public suicide; his fortune lost and his brother Harmon missing in the Iberian peninsula, it falls to nineteen-year-old Sebastian to restore the family fortunes and provide some semblance of security for his mother and four sisters. Sebastian doesn't expect to be attracted to the man who buys his company at a shockingly high price -- much less the murder attempts, blackmail and old buried secrets which will lead him to wonder if love is Worth The Price. less

Harmon Worthing went to Spain to escape blackmail, to escape ruin and to escape himself. But ruin seems to follow Harmon wherever he goes, until he meets Jake de Fuentes Novas, and stops running from himself. But with the armed might of two countries in pursuit, do they even have a chance?