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Promises and Primroses

Promises and Primroses

Contemporary RomanceRomantic Comedy
Published
2018

Synopsis

A bighearted, meddling uncle uses his vast inheritance to motivate his strong-willed nieces and nephews to choose wisely in marriage. As Peter and Julia, and Elliott and Amelia — whose heart Elliott broke thirty years earlier — face their pasts, each couple must decide if risking it all is worth the promise of new love. The first book in Josi S. Kilpack's Mayfield Family Regency romance series.

Prose complexity
2/10

Vibe

RomanticLighthearted
Dual TimelineSecond Chance

Genres

Contemporary Romance Romantic Comedy

About the author

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Josi S. Kilpack

Josi S. Kilpack is an American novelist from Salt Lake City, Utah, best known for her Sadie Hoffmiller Culinary Mystery series, which began with Lemon Tart (2009), and for her Regency-era historical romances published under Shadow Mountain's Proper Romance and Timeless Regency Collection imprints, including A Heart Revealed and the Mayfield Family series (Promises and Primroses, Daisies and Devotion, Rakes and Roses, Love and Lavender). She has won four Whitney Awards for fiction with Latter-day...

Characters

Elliott MayfieldProtagonist

A bachelor uncle who sets out to arrange marriages for his nieces and nephews, only to find himself falling in love again.

Peter MayfieldSupporting

Elliott's nephew, a widower whose life is upended when he falls for the new governess hired after his wife's death.

All characters in Promises and Primroses