Marie The listening silence. This contemporary romantic mystery imparts both a delightful sense of the French country side and considerable details about the perfume industry. The second sister. A young Englishwoman, who is co-owner of an Egyptian hotel, is trust into a world of intrigue. When Elizabeth Jones becomes an author's secretary, she falls in love with her employer's son and finds herself involved in a kidnapping.
Slapstick humor enhances the lively plot.
In a sensitive narrative, this contemporary romance profiles the domestic troubles that plague a second marriage. Sheila The bar sinister. Captain Failk, a novelist and soldier, woos widowed Emily Foster, home in England caring for his children, with letters from the battlefield in Napoleonic Spain. Smiths trademark repartee distinguishes this novel, in which nimble-witted spinster Chloe Barwick wonders aloud whether village life will be devastated or enhanced when notorious Black Jack Gamble arrives from India to claim his inheritance. Mary Harnessing peacocks.