Gwendeline is the orphan to awful parents and somehow is magically rescued by an earl who says he was friends with her father and provides a house and income to her. Having not read the original book, I don’t know what has changed. This one was originally published as Gwendeline in 1980 and revised and republished in 2018. Shop this book via Amazon Earl to the Rescue by Jane Ashford (2018) And you don’t need to read the other books in the series to appreciate it.Įbook borrowed from my local library via Libby. This was a quick-paced novella with relatively low-angst and low external drama. They’re scheduled for seven nights together and they slowly get to know each other (conversationally at first) during those nights. When the majority owner of the grotto puts Coral up for a prize from a card game, the captain steps in the win her. She and a ship captain, Isaac, have been at odds, since he does not approve of his sailors spending time at her place of business, and she seems to be unable to tempt him. We first met Coral in Book 1 of the series, now it’s several years later and she’s running the brothel. Novella about the madam from the famed brothel, Aphrodite’s Grotto. The Ice Princess by Elizabeth Hoyt (2010) I finished reading a whole series by Eve Pendle this week and a bunch of upcoming releases for February.
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But through it all she exhibits a direct good sense and alert intelligence that win regard from all parties, and from readers as well. At times the conflicting claims are almost too much for Jean, whose uncertain judgment leads her into a potentially perilous situation. Callender's will, which could answer much, can be found among the family papers. It becomes clear that she's in danger, but from which side? Perhaps old Mr. Jean herself is poisoned, but whether purposely or by accident, whether in Enoch's home or in Mr. Thiel, and with Mac, the local doctor's son, who becomes her partner in tracking down the family secrets. Thiel not on speaking terms with Enoch Callender, Irene's younger brother, who lives nearby? Was Irene murdered, and if so by whom? And what happened to her child, who disappeared soon after its mother's death? As the summer and her task proceed, Jean becomes better acquainted with both Enoch and Mr. But the Callender family mystery proves more intriguing: Why is Mr. Thiel has summoned Jean to sort and dispose of several cartons of Callender family papers, a dull and bewildering task. Thiel, the widow of Aunt Constance's girlhood friend Irene Callender. Written in the first person with a touch of period primness, it's the story of Jean Wainwright's 13th summer in 1894, which she spends away from Aunt Constance, the admirable girls'-school headmistress who raised her, in the employ of wintery Mr. Less ambitious than Voigt's other novels, this conforms to an established juvenile fiction genre, but it is a superior example of its type. His estate included over 3,000 volumes in his collection of books. When Pepys died on May 26, 1703, he had no children and left his entire estate to his nephew, John Jackson. This collection of both personal and political accounts is an important timepiece that illustartes life in 17th Century England. In total, Pepys wrote for approximately nine years. At the end of May 1669, he reluctantly concluded that, for the sake of his eyes, he should completely stop writing and, from then on, only dictate to his clerks which meant he could no longer keep his diary. The diary was written in one of the many standard forms of shorthand used in Pepys's time, in this case called Tachygraphy devised by Thomas Shelton. Pepys's diary has become a national monument. It provides a combination of personal revelation and eyewitness accounts of great events, such as the Great Plague of London, the Second Dutch War and the Great Fire of London. The detailed private diary Pepys kept from 1660 until 1669 was first published in the 19th century, and is one of the most important primary sources for the English Restoration period. By his hard work and his talent for administration, he rose to be the Chief Secretary to the Admiralty under both King Charles II and King James II. Samuel Pepys was an English naval administrator and Member of Parliament who is now most famous for the diary he kept for a decade while still a relatively young man. |