Yet the news of her father’s death has forced her return to the nightmare.
Staunton, Virginia, is laced in bad memories of a mentally ill mother, an estranged father, and the first boy who broke her heart. Eat a stick of butter or return to her hometown? School teacher Kinsley Bailey would rather risk the caloric overload.
In this romantic comedy, the reunion between a teacher and her army veteran ex-love might make for the hottest summer this small town has ever seen.
Something about this young woman, Elfa, fascinates the Duke and reluctantly he agrees to do as she asks of him.Īnd despite the constant attentions of Society beauty, Isobel, the Countess of Walshingham, who is determined to keep him for herself, the Duke finds himself becoming enchanted by Elfa’s quiet intelligence, innocence and beauty – just as she is spellbound by him. Not only because she does not love the Duke but also because she is already madly in love with another, the charming and handsome Edward Dalkirk.ĭesperate to help her older sister, the aptly named young ‘elfin’ beauty, Lady Elfa Allerton, secretly waylays the Duke of Lynchester in his chaise and begs him to marry her instead and to leave her sister free for the man who she truly loves and adores.Įlfa from her childhood is fascinated by woods and goes to a wood to talk to the trees and immerses herself in the magic all around her and in times of difficulty she prays to the God of trees, Sylvanos, for his help and guidance and he always helps her. When their father, the Duke of Northallerton, offers his daughter Caroline’s hand in marriage to his neighbour, the Duke of Lynchester, purely as a means of settling once and for all an ancient land dispute, she is appalled.
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