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Harriet Smart: The Romances
Four enthralling romances by Harriet Reckless Griselda, A Tempting Proposal, The True Value of Pearls, and The Wild Garden.
Reckless Griselda
On an impetuous journey to stop her father making an unsuitable marriage, Griselda Farquarson meets dashing Tom Thorpe. They fall instantly in love and into trouble. After she indulges in a sensual clandestine encounter with him, Griselda is forced to face the consequences of her reckless disregard for the rules of society. For this is England in 1816, and Tom is a wealthy baronet, caught up in a net of emotional entanglements and family conflicts. Determined to do the right thing and preserve Griselda’s reputation, he must face the ruin of his own. As a whirlwind of scandal engulfs them, will Griselda and Tom be able to transform their passionate attraction into a true and lasting happiness or will their love be destroyed by it?
A Tempting Proposal
Adela Ross is reduced to singing in Macreadies’ sordid supper club in Edinburgh to keep a roof over her head. Sir William Urquhart must marry within a month or forfeit the fortune left to him by his uncle.
When Adela falters on stage in front of a rough crowd, Will intervenes and rescues her. Impressed by her determination and spirit in the face of adversity, Will decides that she may be the solution to his problem. He asks her to marry how can she refuse such a tempting proposal? She will be an independent woman of means, while Will goes away to Rome, a husband in name only. After their hasty marriage, the trouble begins. Obliged by circumstances to pretend it is a love match, Adela finds her resolve to stay aloof from Will crumbling fast. The game of playing happy husband and wife is seductive enough and Will is dangerously attractive. But there are many question marks about his past and no satisfactory answers. Can Adela resist a man who might break her heart? Is it such a tempting proposal after all?
The True Value of Pearls
London, 1947: Saskia Harper learns that she has inherited her childhood home. The Seigneurie is set in a remote corner of Brittany, the Cornwall of France, and for Saskia it is a place of enchanted memories. Desperate to escape her troubled life in London, she sets out to claim it. But when she arrives at the ancient manor house, she finds that her inheritance is fiercely disputed. Someone else claims to be the true owner, and all seems lost. Reeling, Saskia is thrown into a chance encounter with a mysterious yet charismatic stranger, Jean-Jacques Sebastien, who has come to Brittany on a quest of his own. Jean-Jacques drags her into the dangerous complexities of post-occupation France, and it soon emerges that they have business in common, and more besides. But as she opens her heart to him, she finds herself struggling to save him from his own dark past.
The Wild Garden
Kate Mackenzie is on the brink of artistic success when she meets Gabriel Erskine, twenty-two years her senior. She is captivated by his understanding of her paintings and his outlook, and six months later Kate moves into Gabriel's beautiful house in Fife, set in rambling gardens. Henrietta Winthrop has no idea, when she arrives in St Andrews, that Gabriel Erskine lives nearby. Thirty years earlier, she made a decision that affected both their lives; when she discovers that the young woman she has befriended lives with Gabriel, Henrietta is stunned. How will she feel when she sees Gabriel and Kate together in the home that once could have been hers?
At Allansfield, the arrival of Gabriel's son Hugh, with his young child, has brought the age difference with her lover sharply into focus for Kate
Reckless Griselda
On an impetuous journey to stop her father making an unsuitable marriage, Griselda Farquarson meets dashing Tom Thorpe. They fall instantly in love and into trouble. After she indulges in a sensual clandestine encounter with him, Griselda is forced to face the consequences of her reckless disregard for the rules of society. For this is England in 1816, and Tom is a wealthy baronet, caught up in a net of emotional entanglements and family conflicts. Determined to do the right thing and preserve Griselda’s reputation, he must face the ruin of his own. As a whirlwind of scandal engulfs them, will Griselda and Tom be able to transform their passionate attraction into a true and lasting happiness or will their love be destroyed by it?
A Tempting Proposal
Adela Ross is reduced to singing in Macreadies’ sordid supper club in Edinburgh to keep a roof over her head. Sir William Urquhart must marry within a month or forfeit the fortune left to him by his uncle.
When Adela falters on stage in front of a rough crowd, Will intervenes and rescues her. Impressed by her determination and spirit in the face of adversity, Will decides that she may be the solution to his problem. He asks her to marry how can she refuse such a tempting proposal? She will be an independent woman of means, while Will goes away to Rome, a husband in name only. After their hasty marriage, the trouble begins. Obliged by circumstances to pretend it is a love match, Adela finds her resolve to stay aloof from Will crumbling fast. The game of playing happy husband and wife is seductive enough and Will is dangerously attractive. But there are many question marks about his past and no satisfactory answers. Can Adela resist a man who might break her heart? Is it such a tempting proposal after all?
The True Value of Pearls
London, 1947: Saskia Harper learns that she has inherited her childhood home. The Seigneurie is set in a remote corner of Brittany, the Cornwall of France, and for Saskia it is a place of enchanted memories. Desperate to escape her troubled life in London, she sets out to claim it. But when she arrives at the ancient manor house, she finds that her inheritance is fiercely disputed. Someone else claims to be the true owner, and all seems lost. Reeling, Saskia is thrown into a chance encounter with a mysterious yet charismatic stranger, Jean-Jacques Sebastien, who has come to Brittany on a quest of his own. Jean-Jacques drags her into the dangerous complexities of post-occupation France, and it soon emerges that they have business in common, and more besides. But as she opens her heart to him, she finds herself struggling to save him from his own dark past.
The Wild Garden
Kate Mackenzie is on the brink of artistic success when she meets Gabriel Erskine, twenty-two years her senior. She is captivated by his understanding of her paintings and his outlook, and six months later Kate moves into Gabriel's beautiful house in Fife, set in rambling gardens. Henrietta Winthrop has no idea, when she arrives in St Andrews, that Gabriel Erskine lives nearby. Thirty years earlier, she made a decision that affected both their lives; when she discovers that the young woman she has befriended lives with Gabriel, Henrietta is stunned. How will she feel when she sees Gabriel and Kate together in the home that once could have been hers?
At Allansfield, the arrival of Gabriel's son Hugh, with his young child, has brought the age difference with her lover sharply into focus for Kate
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Published December 28, 2019
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