A Passing Fancy

by Kaye Dobbie

Can respectable Cleo find love with black sheep Jacob

1858.

Alone in Nugget Gully, a goldrush town in Australia, Cleo sets up business as a milliner. Independent and respectable Cleo is determined to be successful but finds herself in financial difficulty.

Also in Nugget Gully is disreputable black sheep Jacob Raines. He comes to Cleo's aid when she needs him, and grateful as she is, if her association with Jacob was known her reputation would be ruined. And yet, despite everything, Cleo and Jacob cannot stay away from each other. Scandal follows, but will they have a happy ending?

264 pages, Paperback

Published May 15, 2021

About the author

Kaye Dobbie lives in an old house in the old gold rush town Bendigo, in the state of Victoria, Australia. She has been writing professionally ever since she won the Big River short story contest at the age of eighteen. Her career has undergone many changes, including writing Australian historical fiction under the name Lilly Sommers, to romance written as Sara Bennett/Sara Mackenzie and published by Avon in the USA. Her books have been translated into many languages. She is currently writing under her 'proper' name, Kaye Dobbie, and is published by Harlequin Mira in Australia and Weltbild in Germany. Kaye lives on the central Victorian goldfields, where she creates her stories and in her spare time researches her family tree.

Reviews

[Lynette Williams · Rating 5 out of 5]

Cloe arrives from England and moves to a small town to set up a shop She meets Jacobs Rains who seem to owns much of the town Cloe just wants to be respectable but Jacob is the opposite