Book 3 in The Gresham Chronicles. A schoolmistress who may have a handsome dowry is used by an archaeologist to help him win the heart of a local writer. Romance blossoms, but in the most unlikely places.

Book 1 in The Gresham Chronicles. A young widow determines to overcome her great loss, then discovers unforgettable characters and romance in a quaint English village in the late 1860s. Julia Hollis had enjoyed an easy life in her London townhouse, with servants to attend her every need and a nanny to help raise her three children. But when her husband passes away, she is told by his bankers that he gambled away their fortune, and that the only remaining...

When Andrew Phelps becomes ill and requires his son's skills as a surgeon, and his daughter Aleda's quest for privacy advances an evil man's schemes, Gresham newcomer Jewel Libby becomes an unexpected source of strength and support for the family.

An orphanage in the slums of London is the only home Sarah Matthews has ever known. When she is suddenly whisked away to a wealthy widow's home in the prestigious Mayfair district, Sarah can't fathom what has happened. Why would this elderly woman, a stranger, want her company? But Dorothea Blake has reasons she isn't revealing. As Sarah blossoms into a young woman, the secret Mrs. Blake harbors threatens to make them both outcasts among London's...

Widow Julia Hollis leaves London with her three children to run the Larkspur Inn in Gresham.

A young Victorian woman seeks to fulfill the yearning in her heart.