Julie Klassen
Author
Publisher
Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sophie Dupont, daughter of a portrait painter, assists her father in his studio, keeping her own artwork out of sight. She often walks the cliffside path along the north Devon coast, popular with artists and poets. It's where she met the handsome Wesley Overtree, the first man to tell her she's beautiful. Captain Stephen Overtree is accustomed to taking on his brother's neglected duties. Home on leave, he's sent to find Wesley. Knowing his brother...
Author
Publisher
Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
News of her brother's worrisome behavior spurs Miss Rebecca Lane to return home to her village. Upon her arrival, he begs her to go to nearby Swanford Abbey, a medieval monastery turned grand hotel rumored to be haunted. Feeling responsible for her brother's desperate state, she reluctantly agrees to stay at the abbey until she can deliver his manuscript to a fellow guest who might help him get published-an author who once betrayed them.
Soon, Rebecca...
Author
Publisher
Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
Finding himself the man of the family, London dancing master Alec Valcourt moves his mother and sister to remote Devonshire, hoping to start over. But he is stunned to learn the village matriarch has prohibited all dancing, for reasons buried deep in her past. Alec finds an unlikely ally in the matriarch's daughter. Though he's initially wary of Julia Midwinter's reckless flirtation, he comes to realize her bold exterior disguises a vulnerable soul--and...
Author
Publisher
Bethany House
Physical Desc
415 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Exposed to fashionable society and romance--as well as clues about her mother--Lillian Haswell, brilliant daughter of a local apothecary, is torn when she is summoned back to her ailing father's bedside to save the family legacy at a time when women are forbidden to work as apothecaries and the suspicious eyes of a scholarly physician and a competing apothecary are upon her.
Author
Series
Tales from Ivy Hill volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"In 1821, several villagers of Ivy Hill have found new love and purpose, while questions and dreams remain. When a secretive new dressmaker arrives, the ladies suspect she isn't who she claims to be. While residents of Ivy Hill anticipate one wedding, an unexpected bride may surprise them all"--
Author
Series
Tales from Ivy Hill volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Language
English
Description
The lifeblood of the Wiltshire village of Ivy Hill is its coaching inn, The Bell. But when the innkeeper dies suddenly, his genteel wife, Jane Bell, becomes the reluctant owner. Jane has no notion of how to run a business. However, with the town's livelihood at stake and a large loan due, she must find a way to bring new life to the inn. Despite their strained relationship, Jane turns to her resentful mother-in-law, Thora, for help. Formerly mistress...
Author
Series
Tales from Ivy Hill volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Physical Desc
444 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Gentlewoman of reduced circumstances Miss Rachel Ashford decides to earn a living by using inherited books to start a circulating library, but as she processes books with the help of a man from her past, they encounter mysteries to be solved.
Author
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Language
English
Description
"Evidence from a mysterious death takes Benjamin to an island on the Thames. There, Isabelle is trapped by fear and a recurring dream about a man's death. Or is it a memory? When a second death brings everyone under suspicion, she realizes her island sanctuary will never be the same"--
Author
Series
Tales from Ivy Hill volume 5
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
212 pages : illustration ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In the late 1800s, haunted by an old secret, Richard Brockwell prefers to stay away from Ivy Hill-until his mother threatens to stop funding his carefree life unless he returns for Christmas. Will Christmastime in Ivy Hill, with all of its divine hope, surprises, and romance, work its magic?"--
Author
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Laura Callaway daily walks the windswept Cornwall coast, known for many shipwrecks but few survivors. And when a man with curious wounds and an odd accent is washed ashore, she cares for him while the mystery surrounding him grows. Can their budding attraction survive, and can he be returned to his rightful home when danger pursues them from every side?"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
391 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mariah Aubrey lives in an abandoned gatehouse on a distant relative's estate, where she supports herself and her servant by writing novels in secret, and when Captain Matthew Bryant leases the estate, she is attracted to him.
15) Lady maybe
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Berkley trade paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
"One final cry. God almighty, help us! and suddenly her world shifted violently, until a blinding collision scattered her mind and shook her bones. Then, the pain. The freezing water. And as all sensation drifted away, a hand reached for hers, before all faded to darkness. Now she has awakened as though from some strange, suffocating dream in a warm and welcoming room she has never seen before, and tended to by kind, unfamiliar faces. But not all...
Author
Series
On Devonshire Shores volume 2
Language
English
Description
When the Duke and Duchess of Kent rent neighboring Woolbrook Cottage for the winter, the Summers sisters are called upon to host three of the royal couple's male staff in their seaside house. But they soon realize they've invited mysterious secrets and the sweet possibility of romance into their home.Meanwhile, Emily Summers approaches a local publisher in hopes of fulfilling her dream of becoming an author. When he turns her down, his dashing competitor...
Author
Series
On Devonshire shores volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
434 pages : illustration ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When their father's death leaves them impoverished, the Summers sisters open their home to guests to provide for their ailing mother. But instead of the elderly invalids they expect, they find themselves hosting eligible gentlemen. Sarah must confront her growing attraction to a mysterious widower, and Viola learns to heal her deep-hidden scars"--
Author
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
414 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fleeing a dishonorable man, Margaret abandons her pampered upper-class world for an anonymous life as a maid in the household of Nathaniel Upchurch, a suitor she once rejected in hopes of winning his brother.
Author
Series
On Devonshire shores volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When their father's death leaves them impoverished, the Summers sisters open their home to guests to provide for their ailing mother. But instead of the elderly invalids they expect, they find themselves hosting eligible gentlemen. Sarah must confront her growing attraction to a mysterious widower, and Viola learns to heal her deep-hidden scars."--
Author
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
424 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Moving to Devonshire only to discover that the village matriarch has prohibited all dancing, London dance master Alec Valcourt finds an unlikely ally in the matriarch's daughter, a recklessly flirtatious girl who would discover Alec's secrets.