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Glad tidings, hearts binding. Theyโve weathered a lot worse than winter. For widow June Harper, another cold front is about to hit. Most call him Hugh. Sheโd call him Scrooge, except as the man ensures her needs are met, June canโt help but wonder how to meet the needs of his heart.
A disgraced scholar running from her past and an entrepreneur chasing his future find themselves thrown togetherโand fall in loveโon a Tolkien tour of New Zealand. Allison Shire (yes, like where the Hobbits live) is a disgraced academic who is done with love.
If you love hymns and history and romance, like me, I have no doubt that you will adore Newton and Polly by Jody Hedlund!
Twenty-seven years after the deaths of Detective Abby Hart's parents, she's desperate to find the proof that will put the mastermind--the governor's wife--behind bars.ย When she joins a newly formed task force and teams up with PI Luke Murphy, Abby is sent to San Luis Obispo to work the cold case of a murdered college student.
On the run from a brute of an aristocratic employer, Eleanor Morgan escapes England to America, the land of the free, for the opportunity to serve an upstanding Charles Town family. But freedom is hard to come by as an indentured servant, and downright impossible when she's forced to agree to an even harsher contract - marriage to a man she's never met.
Y'all are in for a real treat today, make sure you scroll all the way down so you don't miss anything!!! In addition to reading my humble opinion of the featured title Hello, reader friends! I'm delighted to share my thoughts on the second installment of the Isle of Hope series, Love Everlasting by Julie Lessman.
Sent away for protection, hotel heiress Estella Everstone finds herself living undercover as a ladyโs companion named Elle Stoneburner at one of her fatherโs opulent hotels in the mountains of Maineโthe one she'd always loved best and always hoped to own one day, Everston.
It is 1664 and Patience Terry is devastated to learn that Captain Jeremy Horton's ship has been shipwrecked off the coast of Barbados, with no survivors. She had hoped that Jeremy would someday give up the sea and settle down with her in Southold, Long Island.
Reading this series in its entirety during one weekend was better than a Downton Abbey-Pride and Prejudice-Emma BBC marathon! These books are 400+ pages each and each one is absolutelyย fabulous and all are nowย on my all-time favorites list!
Itโs the early 1930s, but Cora Scott is walking in stride as a career woman after having inherited her great auntโs wedding shop in Heartโs Bend, Tennessee, where brides come from as far away as Birmingham to experience her famed bridal treatment.
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