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Summertime splendor

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1992Jove

Synopsis

This collection of four Regency-era romances celebrates love blooming during the summer. From a mistress masquerading as a servant to a shy miss finding love at a royal fete, each story explores unexpected connections. A chaperoning cousin falls for an unplanned love, and a moonlit kiss by the sea ignites a lasting passion.

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Authors

Marion Chesney was born in 1936 in Glasgow, Scotland. Her first job was a bookseller in charge of the fiction department in John Smith & Sons Ltd. While working there, the Scottish Daily Mail hired her to review variety shows; she quickly rose to be their theatre critic. She left Smith’s to work as a secretary--albeit without typing or shorthand skills--in the advertising department of Scottish Field magazine but was soon the fashion editor instead. She moved to the Scottish Daily Express, where...

Cynthia Bailey-Pratt is the author of "Summertime Splendor." Her writing often brings a warm, inviting feel to stories about life and nature.

Melinda Pryce is a pseudonym of romance fiction writer Linda Shertzer.

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Characters

Lady CassandraProtagonist
ElizaProtagonist
Lord Peter CourtneySupporting

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