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Winterberry Park #2
Winterberry Fire
Ada Bell loves her position as an upstairs maid at Winterberry Park. It’s her fellow maids she could do without. Sisters Mary and Martha Mull have made more trouble in her life than anyone deserves. But hope of a better life is within reach in the form of handsome schoolteacher, Timothy Turnbridge. Tim has loved Ada almost from the moment he met her. At last, the time feels right to do something about it. There’s just one problem—one of his older students, Alice Jones. Alice is almost out of the schoolroom and has a furious crush on Tim. With the Valentine’s Day dance approaching, she’s determined to get her man. When Mary Mull comes up with a plan to keep Ada and Tim apart, and when Alice gets mixed up in the mess, hilarity ensues. Winterberry Park has never seen the kind of comedy of errors that explodes when rivalries, crushes, and just plain silliness turn everything upside down. PLEASE BE Steam Level – Hot Winterberry Fire is connected to the full-length novel AUGUST SUNRISE, part of The Silver Foxes of Westminster series, which consists of…. DECEMBER HEART (and its accompanying novellas) --Starcross Lovers --Starcross Dreams AUGUST SUNRISE (and its accompanying novellas) --Winterberry Spark --Winterberry Fire (Coming in MAY MISTAKES (and its accompanying novellas) --Brynthwaite Promise --Brynthwaite Summer
144 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 18, 2018
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Merry Farmer
296 books1,143 followersUSA Today Bestselling author Merry Farmer lives in suburban Philadelphia with her two cats, Justine and Peter. She has been writing since she was ten years old and realized she didn't have to wait for the teacher to assign a creative writing project to write something. It was the best day of her life. Her books have reached the top of Amazon's charts, and have been named finalists for several prestigious awards, including the RONE Award for indie romance.
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January 29, 2022
Winterberry Fire, Book 2.6 of The Silver Foxes of Westminster series (and Book 2 of the Winterberry Park series), was about Miss Ada Bell, an upstairs maid at Winterberry Park, and Mr. Timothy Turnbridge, the local schoolteacher.
Although Ada enjoyed working for the Croydons, she wanted nothing more than to settle down and have a family of her own, preferably with Tim, the schoolteacher. However, two of the other maids, Mary and Martha Mull, were intent on keeping them apart, with Mary being the driving force of the plan.
Tim, who had been in love with Ada since he first met her, was easy picking for the likes of the Mull sisters, also had another issue he didn't quite discern. One of his students, Alice, had a crush on him and was hoping to become his sweetheart.
The entire book was full of extreme hodge-podge tomfoolery of mistakes made by one character after another. It was like reading an episode of The Three Stooges that never quite made it to film, except it wasn't that good. While it would normally be understandable for a studious man to lose focus and not realize what was going on around him, that couldn't be said for the other characters. Surely the author didn't expect the reader to believe that many people could come up with that many comedic errors. While it's understandable that the series was needing a bit of comic relief due to the nature of some of the previous books, this was just a bit over the top.
While it wasn't worth a five-star rating, it wasn't a bad book. It just didn't feel like it fit the series as it really didn't have anything to do with the previous books, except for the fact that they were characters who had shown up in a book or two before.
Although Ada enjoyed working for the Croydons, she wanted nothing more than to settle down and have a family of her own, preferably with Tim, the schoolteacher. However, two of the other maids, Mary and Martha Mull, were intent on keeping them apart, with Mary being the driving force of the plan.
Tim, who had been in love with Ada since he first met her, was easy picking for the likes of the Mull sisters, also had another issue he didn't quite discern. One of his students, Alice, had a crush on him and was hoping to become his sweetheart.
The entire book was full of extreme hodge-podge tomfoolery of mistakes made by one character after another. It was like reading an episode of The Three Stooges that never quite made it to film, except it wasn't that good. While it would normally be understandable for a studious man to lose focus and not realize what was going on around him, that couldn't be said for the other characters. Surely the author didn't expect the reader to believe that many people could come up with that many comedic errors. While it's understandable that the series was needing a bit of comic relief due to the nature of some of the previous books, this was just a bit over the top.
While it wasn't worth a five-star rating, it wasn't a bad book. It just didn't feel like it fit the series as it really didn't have anything to do with the previous books, except for the fact that they were characters who had shown up in a book or two before.
April 20, 2018
Winterberry Fire: A Silver Foxes of Westminster Novella Winterberry Park Book 2 by Merry Farmer. What a delightful story full of misunderstandings and comedy of errors for Tim and Ada. This short story made me laughter and smile. I enjoyed it very much. My free opinion ARC. Thanks.
April 21, 2018
Very quick:
Dang merry, that was the quickest funniest, heart warming book that I have ever read!! I do love all your romance series but it's a bummer when you finish it in one day after you got it... But I won't stop reading them, keep on writing Merry we so love your books !!!
Dang merry, that was the quickest funniest, heart warming book that I have ever read!! I do love all your romance series but it's a bummer when you finish it in one day after you got it... But I won't stop reading them, keep on writing Merry we so love your books !!!
April 28, 2018
Comedy
Errors and major mix-ups are very humorously explored in this comedy of people all looking for acceptance love and their place in the hierarchy of jolly old England.
Errors and major mix-ups are very humorously explored in this comedy of people all looking for acceptance love and their place in the hierarchy of jolly old England.
May 3, 2018
Real love, tried and true
This book had me in hysterics once I got past the spiteful sisters. A tale of events caused fumbling and bumbling. But, truth wins out, and true love.
This book had me in hysterics once I got past the spiteful sisters. A tale of events caused fumbling and bumbling. But, truth wins out, and true love.
May 21, 2018
Mixed messages. That is what this novella is all about. It could be made into a comedy of errors. Much fun ensues with just a modicum of tragedy.
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April 19, 2022Very funny and lovely
March 24, 2023
I do not like mean girls or mean people in general and Mary and Martha Mull were just plain spiteful.
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