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The Lacemaker

Silver Linings Mysteries, Book 2

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The Lacemaker

By: Mary Kingswood
Narrated by: Joanna Stephens
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A traditional Regency romance, drawing room rather than bedroom.

Caroline Milburn and her younger sisters live in two cramped rooms, struggling to survive by their skills in lace making and weaving. When their previously unknown grandfather drowns on the Brig Minerva and bequeaths them a cottage in the country, their lives seem set to improve. But where will the daughters of a linen draper fit into rural life, now that they are better off? How will Caroline find husbands for her younger sisters? Why have purses of money been buried in the garden? And why are the neighbours so interested in them?

Charles Leatham was happy in the army, where all he had to do was to follow orders. With both his older brothers dead, he’s forced to return home and he knows where his duty lies - he must marry, and soon, to secure the inheritance. He doesn’t care who he marries, but why is his step-mother so keen to pair him with the ill-bred linen draper’s daughter? She’s a termagant and a shrew, but he always follows orders so he resigns himself to the inevitable. At least she’ll be grateful for the offer...won’t she?

This is a complete story with a HEA. Book two of a six book series.

©2019 Mary Kingswood (P)2020 Mary Kingswood Historical Historical Fiction Regency Regency Romance Romance Romantic Suspense Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction Mystery

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Does the author like the male sex. Or does she feel making feeble wimp, makes them more appealing? I wonder how they finally won the 10 year war !! If the officers were so indecisive and week. The lower and middle classes had a greater priority of acceptable behaviour, that the Upper classes. Respectability was a "God". So how Poppy was allowed to keep disappearing and not be closely chaperoned; was a fantasy. In fact it was a parallel universe, with plenty of bastards sprinkled about. It gave the narrator plenty of chances to overact. It comes to an abrupt end, everything is forgiven and everyone lives happily ever after.

Inconceivable.

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