Maggie without a clue

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Marilyn French

Romantic love and its power to shake a woman's life at any age is the subject of this new novel by Marilyn French. At the center, Hermione Beldame, in her sixties, a writer of romance novels (eighty-seven of them, an average of two a year for forty years). She is rich, sophisticated, self-made, often di-vorced, long widowed, and long finished with the notion of romantic love as a part of her life. Until, one day, at a party - she sees across the room an attractive man who finds his way to her. What begins as a charming conversation between two strangers develops into much more (and much less) as the novel charts the course of a brief encounter that disrupts the equilibrium - the hard-won serenity - of its heroine, seizing her heart and her life during her summer with George.

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Sarah Orne Jewett

"The story of an endearing unlikely friendship set against the backdrop of a remote and beautiful Maine coastal town, The Country of the Pointed Firs is one of Sarah Orne Jewett's most loved works, and it quickly earned her a reputation as a talented writer upon its publication. Praised by Alice Brown for its "idyllic atmosphere of country life," Jewett's novel shows her intimate understanding of New England and its unique inhabitants, whose prickly exteriors often concealed a warm and loyal nature.". "This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition includes four additional Dunnet Landing stories: "The Queen's Twin," "A Dunnet Shepherdess," "The Foreigner," and "William's Wedding.""--BOOK JACKET.

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Jane Feather

When her older brother Nick, a British spy, is killed, Lady Harriet Devere is given a new mission by the Ministry of War--to spend Christmas determining if Julius Forsythe, Earl of Marbury, is a double agent for the French.

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Melanie George

When wealthy British sex scientist Dexter Harrington offers New York novelist Mallory Ginelli a handsome wage to travel to England and assist him with a project on human sexuality, Mallory accepts. She needs the money to pay off her sister's latest round of gambling debts, but what she doesn't dare tell Dexter is that she has no firsthand experience with men. All of the sexy love scenes in her books come from her imagination. Unfortunately, Dexter, who is due to marry his fiancée, hasn't a clue how to please a woman, and he's counting on Mallory to instruct him.