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Three Romantic Short Stories on the them town meets country, full of warmth, humour, unexpected meetings and happy endings. 1. New Lease of Life: Single mum Rosie struggles to hold onto her job and keep her teenage son out of trouble, till her friend Kate comes up with a suggestion that will help them both. The catch is, it involves adjusting to country life, but as it’s supposed to help Kate catch a man, it’s all in a good cause. Little does Rosie realise that local landowner Hugh has ideas of catching her. 2. Posing the Question: Fiona is thrilled when she hears of an old painting ...

Mutual Designs: Kay is proud of the company she’s created. Kilderscope Interior Design might be a relatively new and small-scale business but her reputation is growing and media coverage is promising. When an oil-rich sheikh requests her company’s professional services, she finds he will only deal with a male chief executive. To bring the deal off she needs a suitable man to play the part, so she hires Rob, believing him to be an out-of-work actor. That’s her first mistake… Written in the Beads: June goes to Africa for a working holiday after being dumped by both her boyfriend and ...

Joanne Gifford has lived most of her life in the Devonshire seaside town of Stowmouth. Her father is the local vicar and she is the eldest of eight children. She left school when her mother died and took over the running of the household and the care of her younger siblings. At twenty-eight, with the youngest three still at home, she doesn’t see a time when she’ll ever be free of her responsibilities and able to develop a life of her own. Then handsome Swiss architect, Liam Keller, arrives in town, bent on acquiring a run-down Victorian hotel for his family’s five-star chain, and by ...

Shorthand/typist Claribel struggles to find another job after her London employer goes bust in the economic difficulties of the early eighties. At last she’s offered a post at a country estate in rural Wiltshire, but she’s not sure she wants it. The signs are not good. On her first day a Rolls Royce almost knocks her off her bike. She’s supposed to be staying in the old stable block, but there’s no furniture. And who is the autocratic owner who has such a thing about privacy and security. She begins to think she got the job because no one else wanted it. And then there’s his ...

In 1890, shortly before her twenty-fifth birthday, Elizabeth Portland finds herself abandoned for the second time in her life. Against her better judgement she is persuaded to act as chaperone to an eighteen-year-old society girl to see her safely through a summer on the continent before her coming out season. Caught up in the parry and thrust of society match-making, she has no thought of herself becoming an object of interest, particularly to Hugh Wentworth, heir to a duke and reportedly a philanderer who makes his living by gambling. How unfortunate that circumstances keep throwing her ...

Seventeen year old Jane Waterford quits her step-mother’s house in Ireland after the sudden death of her father and takes a ship to England to get away from the threat of an arranged marriage. A friendly widow takes Jane under her wing, but their carriage overturns on the road and after that things never go quite as Jane intended. Unwittingly she takes a job as secretary to the grandmother of the Duke of Grantley, the mysterious stranger who rescued them after the accident. When Jane at last realises who he is she clashes with him over a number of things, since they are poles apart ...

meet Nathaniel Sandiford, DUKE OF SHERBORNE. As a scholar at Eton College, he brings a sense of entitlement and a supercilious confidence to all he does, not least his swordsmanship. But then he attends a fencing class at Angelo’s School of Arms and get soundly thrashed by a 12 year old lad called Jack. He vows to improve his skills with a view to a re-match one day, which he intends to win. What he doesn’t know is that Jack is really Jacinta, daughter of a tutor at Angelo’s, where she assists by sparring with the younger boys.

In 1897 orphan Rose Turner revisits Exeter, the city of her birth. A chance meeting inspires her to find a way to better her life and escape the drudgery for which she’s been trained. She also learns the truth of her family’s death in a tragic fire ten years before. Back in London she enrols at a cookery school and becomes a key member of the team hired out to grand houses to cater for important guests, for she has a particular talent with ice-cream. At several of these she encounters George Kemble, self-made businessman, in line to succeed to the Duke of Fairleigh’s title, should he ...

Captain Roland Burford, ex-Royal Navy, seeks a change of direction after being disappointed in love. He accepts a diplomatic post as Secretary to the British Legation in Turin, the capital of Sardinia and Piedmont, and arranges his passage on a naval ship heading for the Mediterranean. Lady Penelope Derwent was recently wed to the Marquis of Hartley’s son James Derwent, who immediately took up his commission with the Royal Navy, leaving her in her father-in-law’s care. Desperate to get away, Penelope secretly arranges to spend the summer at the Italian lakes. With few resources of her ...

Eleanor Young, eldest of a Rector’s large family, once loved and lost. Nine years later, at 27, she is a teacher and governess and a confirmed spinster. She also cares deeply about the growing class of industrial poor in a society still ruled by the privileged few, who show little concern for their welfare. Galvanised into action by the tragic death of a young mill girl, she confronts the Earl of Somerton, the man she believes responsible. Unknown to her, the widowed earl has a child of the same age and is looking for a new governess to remove the girl from the undue influence of her ...

A young woman in search of her rightful inheritance falls into the clutches of a radical naval hero who has made his considerable fortune by prudent investment and seemingly intends to add her to his collection. But, in that era of post-Waterloo suspicion, a government spy has his eye on both of them and a dangerous adventure awaits. If you enjoyed the same author’s Victorian romance mysteries (Heiress to a Duke, Fair Play and Foul, & The Regiment’s Forgotten Daughter) you will love this, her regency debut. It has the same authenticity of a carefully researched historical context but ...

In September, 1938, with war threatening, seventeen-year-old Emily Flannigan is sent by her parents to Liverpool to board a trans-Atlantic liner. At the dockside her suitcase is stolen and the handsome Howard Mortimer, comes to her aid. On the voyage she meets a girl fleeing the Nazi persecution in Austria and a prostitute fleeing her sordid London life. Further challenges await once she reaches New England and she has to grow up fast and learn to survive. A further chance meeting with Howard Mortimer, now a British Naval Reservist, leads to a friendly exchange of correspondence throughout ...

Thomas Robertson has worked with horses since the age of thirteen, mostly recently on a stud farm near the racing town of Newmarket. After notable successes at some of the big races, his reputation is made and he receives an offer to be head groom and trainer to Titus Fox, the Duke of Exford. It couldn’t have come at a better time, for Tom has been receiving unwelcome attention from the stud owner’s daughter—unwelcome at least so far as the stud owner is concerned, having someone of higher social status in mind for his only child. At Exford Hall, Tom finds himself treated with great ...

When Ellen Roberts opens her front door and finds her long-absent granddaughter Janie standing there, little does she expect she will be confronted by the past. For, once Janie unearths a box of correspondence from the First World War hidden in a cupboard, memories come flooding back—how Ellen solved the mystery of those letters, the romance she found along the way, and a guilty secret she’s kept from her daughter Frances for years. That history belongs as much to Frances and Janie as to Ellen. Will she have the courage to share it? This Kindle E book is now also available as an AUDIO ...

In 1918 Lily Deacon is surprised to be asked to join a commission investigating the morals of young Englishwomen serving at the Western front in the First World War, an interruption to her ordered life and her work as a factory inspector. While in France, by chance she hears the reminiscences of a wounded soldier and promises to find out what happened to the young doctor Edward Hamilton and nurse Lucy Smith, who saved his life on their voyage to South Africa in 1900. Within a matter of weeks she has fallen in love with an army surgeon, become a courier for secret information and uncovered ...

Charlotte Milford is passionate for justice. It’s twenty-five years since her father died in mysterious circumstances at an army base in India, her whole lifetime. Determined to discover what actually happened, she sets out on a journey that will place her in considerable danger. It will also throw her in the path of Ingram Sinclair, a cynical undercover army major who thinks Charlotte would be better to keep her mouth shut and go home. She has other ideas… This is the third of Ms Fisher’s Victorian stories based on society scandals of the time (the first two being Fair Play & Foul ...

Nadine Crichton is a glamorous thirty-something woman of the eighties, running a successful business with her friend Pat. But is it enough? Orphaned as a young adult, she longs to have a family to belong to. She’s not the sort to act on a whim, but as 1987 gets underway and heralds a whole series of tragedies from the Zeebrugge ferry sinking to the King’s Cross fire, that’s just what she does. Surely this look-alike woman from years ago must be a relative. Her search leads her first to a small English village, where she finds unexpected complications in the person of local farmer Josh...

From the white, sandy beaches of the Gulf Coast to the tobacco farms in Kentucky, Brianna Cooper is headed for an unforgettable but heartbreaking journey. The strong-willed girl from Biloxi has always focused on her imperfections and doesn’t recognize her unique beauty and incredible talent. In the spring of ’79, when the guitar-loving baseball player from Kentucky lands at the same hotel as her, sparks ignite. They spend a weekend frolicking on the beach, dancing the night away, and sharing their undying passion for music. However, as the holiday weekend unfolds, and Brianna begins to ...

Twenty-five-year-old Lady Millicent Smythe has come a long way since her elder brother, as her then-guardian, tried to marry her off. It was a deal he’d made when she was but 17 with his friend Sir Montague Morton MP, in return for funds. Her escape all those years ago was not a little to do with Lord Charles Lombard, a chivalrous 20-year-old army officer who found her stranded on the road and carried her to safety.

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