Love lost!

Sense and Suitability by Pepper Basham          

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Only Emmeline Lockhart, Gentleman’s daughter with no dowry to speak of, could turn heartache into something else.

When she waited in the garden for Simon Reeves to propose, nephew to the Viscount of Ravenscross, little did she know that he’d left her after penning a short note.

Emme is devastated and retreats to her home in St Groves to heal and write. Would that the healing would happen! The writing certainly is.

Stranger things do happen, especially whilst she’s visiting a distraught widow on behalf of her cousin Thomas, the local vicar.

Emme certainly didn’t expect to meet Simon, now Viscount Ravenscross, after she’d chased a young child on a rather fast horse. A girl she’d spied dragging a sack onto the back of her horse replete with the widow’s stolen chickens.

Nor did she expect to be precipitously thrown over her own horse’s head into a pond only  to be rescued by said Viscount.

Simon has inherited not only the title, but guardianship of his three wild, younger siblings. Simon must marry—someone with an impressive dowry. His estates are near bankruptcy.

A second chance romance, witty and endearing that brings laughter, angst and joy!

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Many thanks to the author and publisher.