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The Buxton Chronicles
1907. A gold mining town in northern California is hardly the place for a member of the English aristocracy. When Lady Serena Buxton arrives in Cold Creek, she is shocked to find her husband, Lord Buxton, is missing. Everyone in town treats her as if she is already a widow. With no husband and no money, what is a lady to do?
1913. Lord and Lady Buxton’s orderly lives are upset by Pinkerton Agent Stuart Montgomery’s unexpected arrival at their estate in England. Montgomery is investigating suspicious deaths at an American aviation company. Will the Buxtons return with him to America and help him close the case? Or is this an excuse for Montgomery to renew a potentially scandalous association with Serena?
918. Lord Randolph Buxton is fighting at the front during the closing months of World War 1. Lady Serena manages Buxton Hall which has been converted into a military hospital. When Randolph is reported missing in action, Serena is heartbroken but carries on with day-to-day duties while she awaits news of her husband. And then Randolph comes home. She married for love, but she does not know the man who returns to her. Will she be strong enough to hold together everything she most cherishes?
1913. Lord and Lady Buxton’s orderly lives are upset by Pinkerton Agent Stuart Montgomery’s unexpected arrival at their estate in England. Montgomery is investigating suspicious deaths at an American aviation company. Will the Buxtons return with him to America and help him close the case? Or is this an excuse for Montgomery to renew a potentially scandalous association with Serena?
918. Lord Randolph Buxton is fighting at the front during the closing months of World War 1. Lady Serena manages Buxton Hall which has been converted into a military hospital. When Randolph is reported missing in action, Serena is heartbroken but carries on with day-to-day duties while she awaits news of her husband. And then Randolph comes home. She married for love, but she does not know the man who returns to her. Will she be strong enough to hold together everything she most cherishes?
439 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 25, 2015
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Victoria Chatham
51 books49 followersAn army brat, my family moved a lot when I was a child. Consequently books became my best friends as they could move with me.
I played around with writing untill 1997, when I started getting serious about it and started taking courses. Although I loved reading historical romance, especially Regency romance, the first novel I completed was a western contemporary romance. I think I wrote that book just to prove I could. Now my work in progress is the 3rd book in my Regency series.
I played around with writing untill 1997, when I started getting serious about it and started taking courses. Although I loved reading historical romance, especially Regency romance, the first novel I completed was a western contemporary romance. I think I wrote that book just to prove I could. Now my work in progress is the 3rd book in my Regency series.
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May 27, 2017
The Buxton Chronicles by Victoria Chatham 27/5/2017
Book One
Cold Gold
I enjoyed each of the three novels in The Buxtorn Chronicles by talented novelist Ms Chatham. Each volume has a large cast of interesting characters, good, bad and in between, whom I enjoyed getting to know.
Book One, Gold, Gold, swept me back to California during the gold rush.
I sympathised with Lady Serena Buxton from the moment she arrived in Cold, Creek, in March 1907, when she knew she should have telegraphed her husband before she left San Francisco.
When Lady Serrena reached Cold Creek it was so bitterly cold that she wished her husband’s gold mine was in a warm place. At the hotel where Randolf, Lord Buxton rented a room, she found out that he was mssing. After he went to the mine a week ago, the sheriff couldn’t trace him. He was helpful but not only his deputy, Stiles, is hostile for no apparent reason so is King, the manager of Randolph’s mine.
When I finished Gold, Gold I really looked forward to reading the next novel in the Buxton Chronicles.
Book Two
On Borrowed Time
Potential murder and mayhem and romance captured my attention at the beginning of On Borrowed Time.
Sometimes it’s hard to say goodbye to characters at the end of a novel, so I was delighted to become reunited with Serena and Randolph, Lord and Lady Buxton. As she proved in Gold, Gold, courageous, resourceful Serena loves her husband. When Pinkerton Agent, Stuart Mongomery, comes to England to ask for help she refuses to be parted from her husband while he is in America.
Stuart explains there were six investors in an airline company owned by Hiram R. Stillwater. When an investor dies his share in the company is inherited by the other members. Four of them are dead. Only Stillwater and Sir Hilary have survived.
The wife of one of the deceased men has employed Stuart to investigatge his
When Randolph and Serena arrive in America they meet their acquaintance, Hilary Blenkinsop, who designs aircraft for Stillman’s company, and unscrupulous Stiles in charge of security, but if murders have been commited is he or someone else guilty?
A well-plotted novel with strong themes and a twist in the tale.
Book Three
Shell Shocked
Buxton Hall, March 1918
Buxton Hall has been requisitioned for men wounded in battle during the First World War. Lord Randolph is on active servicecc His wife, Lady Serena, is short of space to accommodate casualties of war and athe hospital in her stately home is short-staffed.
Ms Chatham’s excellent reconstruction of the challenges in the hospital and those who work in it absorbed me. I cared about all of the characters.
I always enjoy her descriptions of places. For example. “What had once been an elegant ballroom with polished oak floor, mahogany panelling, exquisite chandeliers and walls hung with family portrains is now a busy hospital ward.”
I hope Ms.Chatham plans to write more novels about the intrepid couple, Lord and Lady Buxtonn who are devoted to each other.
Book One
Cold Gold
I enjoyed each of the three novels in The Buxtorn Chronicles by talented novelist Ms Chatham. Each volume has a large cast of interesting characters, good, bad and in between, whom I enjoyed getting to know.
Book One, Gold, Gold, swept me back to California during the gold rush.
I sympathised with Lady Serena Buxton from the moment she arrived in Cold, Creek, in March 1907, when she knew she should have telegraphed her husband before she left San Francisco.
When Lady Serrena reached Cold Creek it was so bitterly cold that she wished her husband’s gold mine was in a warm place. At the hotel where Randolf, Lord Buxton rented a room, she found out that he was mssing. After he went to the mine a week ago, the sheriff couldn’t trace him. He was helpful but not only his deputy, Stiles, is hostile for no apparent reason so is King, the manager of Randolph’s mine.
When I finished Gold, Gold I really looked forward to reading the next novel in the Buxton Chronicles.
Book Two
On Borrowed Time
Potential murder and mayhem and romance captured my attention at the beginning of On Borrowed Time.
Sometimes it’s hard to say goodbye to characters at the end of a novel, so I was delighted to become reunited with Serena and Randolph, Lord and Lady Buxton. As she proved in Gold, Gold, courageous, resourceful Serena loves her husband. When Pinkerton Agent, Stuart Mongomery, comes to England to ask for help she refuses to be parted from her husband while he is in America.
Stuart explains there were six investors in an airline company owned by Hiram R. Stillwater. When an investor dies his share in the company is inherited by the other members. Four of them are dead. Only Stillwater and Sir Hilary have survived.
The wife of one of the deceased men has employed Stuart to investigatge his
When Randolph and Serena arrive in America they meet their acquaintance, Hilary Blenkinsop, who designs aircraft for Stillman’s company, and unscrupulous Stiles in charge of security, but if murders have been commited is he or someone else guilty?
A well-plotted novel with strong themes and a twist in the tale.
Book Three
Shell Shocked
Buxton Hall, March 1918
Buxton Hall has been requisitioned for men wounded in battle during the First World War. Lord Randolph is on active servicecc His wife, Lady Serena, is short of space to accommodate casualties of war and athe hospital in her stately home is short-staffed.
Ms Chatham’s excellent reconstruction of the challenges in the hospital and those who work in it absorbed me. I cared about all of the characters.
I always enjoy her descriptions of places. For example. “What had once been an elegant ballroom with polished oak floor, mahogany panelling, exquisite chandeliers and walls hung with family portrains is now a busy hospital ward.”
I hope Ms.Chatham plans to write more novels about the intrepid couple, Lord and Lady Buxtonn who are devoted to each other.
January 8, 2018
This was one of my favorite!!! I really hope a second book comes along fast!
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