Authorpreneur Dashboard – Ciji Ware
That Summer In Cornwall
Romance
"That Summer in Cornwall" is a contemporary, stand-alone sequel to Ciji Ware’s bestselling “time-slip” novel "A Cottage by the Sea." A different latitude…a different world… Meredith Champlin unexpectedly finds herself the legal guardian of a child she’s never met: Janet Barton Stowe, an unruly eleven-year-old “Beverly Hills brat,” whose mother – Meredith’s cousin-- has died in a private plane crash. At the urging of the child’s Anglo-American aunt, Lady Blythe Barton-Teague, Meredith and her Welsh Corgi decamp from Wyoming to spend the summer at Barton Hall, a shabby-chic castle perched on the remote cliffs of Cornwall, England. Taming the wild child proves a handful, but Meredith’s summer escape gets even more complicated when former British Army Lieutenant Sebastian Pryce, veteran of a bomb-sniffing K-9 squad in Afghanistan, proposes they establish the Barton Hall Canine Obedience Academy and that she join him on the Cornwall Search and Rescue Team. She wonders whether their instant attraction is an unexpected blessing or the prelude to another heartbreak like the one she left behind in the Rocky Mountains. Even with an assist from a novice search dog named T-Rex, the odds seem long that three months in the land of Meredith’s Cornish ancestors can transform her troubled ward into a happier child, heal the wounds suffered by her soldier-turned-rescuer, and save the Barton-Teague estate from pending insolvency. As a friend of Meredith’s confides, “It all sounds like a stretch, but we never rule out miracles.” BONUS: This edition includes a Readers Discussion Guide
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That Summer in Cornwall
Meredith Champlin, late of a Wyoming sheep ranch, has arrived at her Anglo-American cousin's shabby-chic castle on a remote cliff in Cornwall with her legal ward Janet, an unruly eleven-year-old whose Beverly Hills mother has recently died in a private plane crash. In this scene we learn that neither women had met their young relative until the girl's father, a Hollywood film director, virtually unloaded his daughter on the Barton branch of the family. Meredith, 33, a never-married pediatric intensive care nurse and service dog trainer, is at long last in the company of Lady Blythe Barton-Teague, mother of two well-behaved children by her second marriage to Sir Lucas Teague. Meredith prays they can turn this Beverly Hills brat into a decent human being. Upon her arrival that day, Meredith had a run-in with Sebastian Pryce, a startlingly good-looking but decidedly stand-offish member of the Cornwall Search and Rescue Team whose his K9 companion attempted to "have his way with" Meredith's Pembroke Welsh Corgi...
