Alice Chambers' debut novel is an achingly funny, searingly heartbreaking and profoundly moving examination of coming to terms with grief. A story where coping with death means living your life, and moving forward means looking right beside you.
A handsome rake with a passion for gambling and thoroughbreds becomes strapped for cash and decides to marry for money. But when his mark turns out to be a more spirited filly than he had ever before saddled, he feels his heart bucking wildly. Suddenly, much more is on the line than his pocketbook.
THE STORY: When John Lomax comes to the Chambers farmhouse to ask Ma Chambers for the hand of her daughter Natalie, Ma is delighted and quickly leaves the lovers to their own devices. But she neglects to tell Natalie the purpose of John's visit—which leads to a series of hilarious misunderstandings, compounded by an acidulous dispute over who really owns a certain piece of property that both claim. After John exits in a huff Natalie learns the real purpose of his visit, and Ma is sent off to retrieve the would-be suitor. Whereupon the desired proposal is made, and accepted, and another argument begins—as Ma sustains herself with the wine she has provided for a betrothal toast.
Passing herself off as a princess, Eve Stanhope has few scruples about stealing jewels from London's aristocracy. But when she's cornered by Phillip Rosemont, Viscount Wesley, she learns she's not the only one passing as something she's not--and that neither her freedom nor her heart are safe.
Publisher's description: This is no heavy commentary or learned exposition. The author has no such pretensions. It is for simple folk, like herself, who would like to know something of this part of the Bible. The Revelation may have been until now a closed book to you. Open it, and with Alice Chambers as companion, browse through it. You will find the pace easy. And you may even discover that what you thought was forbidding and mysterious country, turns out to be familiar home-ground.
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