Ergebnis für "Starting Over At Sunset Cottage" in Historische Romane

Sommer 1966. Die junge Meg träumt davon, ihre Ausbildung als Köchin mit einer erfolgreichen Karriere zu krönen. Da erreicht sie ein Anruf aus Dorset: In dem charmanten Landgasthof Nightingale Woods, den ihre Mutter Louise leitet, hat von heute auf morgen der Koch gekündigt, und ein großes Fest steht bevor. Die Chance für Meg, sich zu beweisen! Doch das leicht heruntergekommene Anwesen hält einige Überraschungen bereit, nicht zuletzt in Gestalt von Justin, dem Sohn des Besitzers, der eigene Pläne verfolgt.

Living with the two Miss Groves in Ivy Cottage, impoverished gentlewoman Rachel Ashford is determined to earn her own livelihood...somehow. When the village women encourage her to open a subscription library with the many books she has inherited or acquired through donations, Rachel discovers two mysteries hidden among them. A man who once broke her heart helps her search for clues, but will both find more than they bargained for?

Summer, 1947. Kate Herrick, a war widow, returns to her childhood home for a final visit before the house is sold. But Rose Cottage is not the idyllic paradise she remembers from her youth and someone has been there before her. As Kate uncovers an old secret that haunts the home she thought she knew, she is forced to confront a dark truth from her own past.... Beyond the weedy garden with its riot of rose bushes, nothing had changed. And someone was crossing the bridge to approach the garden gate. Someone I knew well....

Recently married to Charles, Sarah is furnishing a cottage in Scotland and starting on a life in sharp contrast to their wartime experiences. Their full entrance into village life is helped by Sarah's delightful grandparents, who have given them the land on which they have built their cottage.

The New Year brings challenges and changes to the colorful Irish village of Ballybucklebo. The Christmas holidays have barely passed before a fire engulfs the humble thatched cottage housing of Donal Donnally and his family. Although the family escapes the blaze more or less unsinged, Donal, his wife, their three small children, and their beloved dog find themselves with nothing left but the clothes on their back.