This was a great book about a recent widow (Lynne) who moves from NYC to her deceased husband's home town in Vermont to turn the family home into a bed & breakfast. Other characters the reader gets to know are Lynne's daughter, Molly, and her friend from Scotland, Jess, as well as her in-laws & o...
This was my first time ready a book by this Author.. I gotta say.. I was impressed.After years lying neglected, the walls of Wolfe Manor tremble as Jacob Wolfe returns--the master is back! Gardener's daughter Mollie Parker has lived amidst the secret, overgrown garden in her little cottage--waiti...
Imposing and regal, she’d been impressed by the house’s elegant proportions the last time she’d visited, to take tea with Isobel. Isobel had taken the opportunity to inform Eleanor of her intentions; now Eleanor wanted to inform the young woman of hers. She took a slow, steadying breath, and knoc...
The sailor led him down a narrow hallway and knocked on the ship master's door.“Enter.”“Here he is, sir.” With more of a leer than a smile, the sailor pushed Ian into Henry Moore's private chamber.Henry sat at a desk in front of him, ink and parchment on its surface. He wore spectacles, which gav...
She took a deep breath and smoothed down the front of her dress, trying for calm. She was packed, ready to leave for Calcutta, and then on to Burma, on the morning tide. Drawing a shaky breath, she turned away from her trunk, pacing her room with restless agitation. She had not, she acknowledged,...
I know it will infuriate him and I can’t handle any more stress. So I tell Lewis that my dad can’t drive any more and so I’m going back to Danbury in a couple of weeks to take him and my mother to the doctor’s. I leave it at that. “They can’t call a taxi?” Lewis asks. He has zero time for my pare...
Then Claire found a CD of Christmas music, and they sang along to favorite carols and songs before heading outside to check on the sheep. Noah explained the basics of animals husbandry to Molly as they walked, gratified at how interested she seemed to be, thankful for Claire by his side. It was, ...
You stay here, with me, for the duration of your pregnancy. Finally she said the first, the only, word she could. ‘No.’ ‘Why not?’ ‘Because…’ Her mind grasped at reasons he would understand, that she could admit to. It’s impossible. Dangerous. I might fall in love with you. ‘I just can’t.’ ‘Can’t...
‘It’s beautiful,’ Hannah murmured, and Sergei smiled, seeming to relax a fraction. He’d been so tense for most of the ride, even though they’d chatted about nothing more taxing than the weather. Hannah knew she shouldn’t have pushed last night, shouldn’t have demanded a kind of emotional honesty ...
She opened them and shook her head. ‘No.’ Jace arched an eyebrow in challenge. ‘Why not? You didn’t seem to have a problem with planning the party before.’ ‘You can’t be serious. After everything—’ ‘We’re professionals, Eleanor.’ Jace’s voice was hard, and Eleanor saw a bleak darkness in his eyes...
Jenna read from the newspaper as she came into Luke’s office, kicking the door closed behind her with one high-heeled foot. She glanced at him over the top of the paper, her eyes dancing. ‘It was a total hit!’ Luke gave a rather terse smile back. He didn’t want to kill Jenna’s buzz, but he hadn’t...
How could Ella deny it, when Philippe held her hand as they walked toward Rockefeller Plaza, when he’d poured her wine at lunch and asked if she’d had a boyfriend? Of course it was a date. A wonderful date, a date that had her heart beating hard and her mouth drying and nameless hopes welling up ...
The words blurred in front of him and wearily he rubbed his eyes. He’d been working in his study all day, reviewing fiscal plans and budget cuts in preparation for a meeting with his cabinet tomorrow. He could see Leo’s mark on everything he read, from the proposal to exte...
It had been a week since Alex had asked her to teach an art class, a week since she’d agreed, and in precisely three minutes twenty-four Year Six children would be coming in for their first art lesson. She was terrified. She’d spent endless evenings...
She hadn’t gone in several weeks; somehow, amidst all the demands of life, the weekly entertainment had lost its cheap allure. “Claire West is going to the pub quiz?” she repeated when Lily told her about her plans. “She organized a team?” “Me, her,...
After a long, restless night, Abby skipped breakfast in an attempt to get to Grace’s and start her round of deliveries on time. One moment she was hurrying down the stairs, car keys in hand, parka thrown over her arm…the next, she wasn’t sure what happened, or how, only that the world seemed to b...
Even better, warming her deep inside, she woke with Vittorio’s arm around her, her head nestled against his shoulder. She breathed in the scent of his skin, loving it, loving him. Yes, she loved him. It seemed so obvious, so simple, in the clean, healing light of day. Yes, love was confusing and ...
She swallowed, discreetly wiped her hands along the sides of her beige silk trench coat and tried to staunch the flutter of nerves in her middle.‘Another ten minutes,’ the pilot told her, and Grace leaned back in her seat, the whine of the propeller blades loud in her ears. She was uncomfortably ...
‘That’s not necessary—’ ‘Yes, it is.’ ‘For you, maybe, and your overblown sense of duty,’ she snapped. She was tired of Jacob’s staggering sense of responsibility for everyone and everything. She couldn’t compete with it. ‘I’m perfectly fine without you.’ That wasn’t compl...
Zoe didn’t go out; she spent most of her days lying in bed, drained and empty. Finally she dragged herself from the apartment, determined to do something. To act. Yet how? What? She found herself wandering the streets, gazing listlessly at the store fronts and office buildings, watching as people...
The vessel held another willing victim for her father’s childish and vindictive game, another desperate soul. There had been six so far, some cautious, some arrogant, all of them trying to solve the puzzle of the Minotaur. All of them had failed, and all of them had been publicly humiliated and f...
The man in front of me shrugged, smiling sheepishly. “Chocolate,” I repeated encouragingly. “Would that be milk chocolate, dark chocolate...? Chocolate icing or chocolate cake?” I love to talk about chocolate. “Er... I don’t know. I don’t know that much about cakes. I ju...
He looked breathtaking in a tuxedo, the elegant cut of his clothing emphasising his powerful frame, the breadth of his shoulders and the trimness of his hips. She hadn’t really noticed either of those attributes before. She took a large gulp of wine. Yet she had seen him in a tuxedo before. He’d ...
Such behaviour was hardly decorous. Emily smiled weakly and watched as Jason made his way towards her, threading through the well-heeled crowd with an arrogant assurance, seemingly indifferent to the people mingling around him. He was a head taller than most of them, and they looked no more than ...