Love and Lavender is the warm-hearted story of two differently-abled individuals who instigate a fake relationship scheme to claim their rightful inheritance. One of my most recommended romances!
Love and Lavender by Josi S. Kilpack
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Welcome to #ThrowBackThursday where I highlight an older review or post a current review of a backlist title. This week I’m featuring one of my favorite historical fiction romances, Love and Lavender by Josi S. Kilpack,
I’m linking up with Davida @ The Chocolate Lady’s Book Review Blog for #ThrowbackThursday.
My Summary:
Love and Lavender is a story of two people who face many challenges and obstacles and have limited choices in the 1800s. Hazel is independent and brilliant; however, she was born with a clubbed foot. As a child, her parents sent her away and now as a young woman, she has resigned herself to the unlikelihood of marriage and has embraced a teaching career. Duncan is brilliant and has a neurodiverse mind. He is an accountant and has carved out a predictable life for himself living alone with his beloved cat. The private school where Hazel teaches may be up for sale (which would jeopardize her job) and Duncan is unhappy with his employers and would love to establish his own accounting firm. Neither of them has the finances to remedy their situations. Hazel and Duncan have the same uncle….one relationship is biological and the other is through guardianship. This uncle offers both Hazel and Duncan an inheritance with the condition that they must each be married. Duncan has the brilliant idea that they should marry each other which would technically fulfill the conditions, but the uncle is reluctant to be tricked into giving them their inheritances. After much convincing, the uncle agrees to their plan, but under the condition that they must live together for one year after the ceremony. This sets up a marriage of convenience. Will this arrangement lead to love and a true relationship? Or will they fulfill the agreement, gain their inheritance, and go their separate ways? Will they even survive the year?
“I must choose one over the other, but whichever path I take means I shall miss the other, which will ruin them both.”
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