London, 1850 Isabelle Rackham knows she will not marry for love. Though arranged marriages have fallen out of fashion, hers has been settled for some time to combine the upper-middle-class wealth of her father’s coal mines with Alexander Osgood’s prospering Northern country textile mills. Though not a man prone to romantic gestures, Alexander is well-known as an eligible bachelor. His good looks have turned more than one head, so Isabelle is content to think of herself as Alexander’s wife. However, her marriage is not what she expected. Northern England is nothing like her home farther west in the lake country.…

Although I’ve heard about Fliss Chester’s books, Summer At The Vineyard is the first book of I’ve read. Summer At The Vineyard Blurb Grab a glass and head to the South of France for fun and flirtation amongst the vines… Jenna Jenkins needs to get away. She’s been unceremoniously sacked from her job and it’s make or break time with her boyfriend Angus, so a summer job at the beautiful Chateau Montmorency in the south of France seems like the perfect solution. Planning the party of the century, dining out with suave Frenchmen, and giving in to a little temptation…

I haven’t read a book by Eva Glyn before, so I didn’t know what to expect from The Olive Grove. Description of The Olive Grove A woman searching for a different future A man desperate to escape his past Can these two find what they are looking for on the beautiful Croatian island of Korčula? Antonia Butler is on the brink of a life-changing decision and a job advert looking for a multilingual housekeeper at a beautifully renovated Croatian farmhouse, Vila Maslina, is one she can’t ignore. Arriving on the tiny picturesque island of Korčula, Antonia feels a spark of…