Chateau Despair
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The young architect was looking at the painting over her shoulder.
“You are very like the painting,” he observed. “Your eyes and mouth…”
“I’m surprised they haven’t spoiled years ago,” Clothilde remarked, smiling at her daughter’s excitement over the discovery.
“These old chateaux have many hiding places like that one,” Hugo Piedmont remarked. “Quite often they are surprisingly dry, and it isn’t the first time art treasures have turned up in such places.”
“We may have to apply for an export licence for the Cézanne, that’s if you want to take it back with you,” Christine said, looking through the treasures with the girls. “But I doubt anyone else will be interested in the portrait of your mother, Andrea.”
“May I see?” Sarah was tugging at Andrea’s skirt and she turned away to show her the picture. They walked off a little distance, examining the picture together.
Clothilde noticed the way the young architect’s eyes followed them and smiled inwardly.
“Now, you were telling me about your plans, monsieur. I think I should like to see more of them. Why don’t you join us for dinner this evening?”
“I should like that above all things,” he replied and gave her a self-conscious look. “Andrea is very beautiful…”
“Yes, she is,” Clothilde agreed. “I’m afraid I cannot promise you anything, monsieur – but come to dinner…”
“Oh, I will,” he said fervently. “Nothing could keep me away.”
Clothilde could not quite hide her smile as she saw his expression. He wasn’t the first young man to have fallen in love with Andrea, and he might not be the last - but she knew that he would receive only kindness at her daughter’s hands.
Andrea was a girl who knew how to love.
The End
http://www.lindasole.co.uk
LINDA SOLE was born in Swindon. Her family moved to Ely in Cambridgeshire when she was nine, and Linda attended the local school but left at fifteen to work as a hairdresser in her father's business. She was married at eighteen and ran her own hairdressing business for some years before moving to Cambridge, where she lives now. She started writing in 1976, combining this with helping her husband to run his antique shop.
Writing as Anne Herries, Linda won the 2004 RNA Romance Award and the Betty Neels Trophy. She lives in Cambridgeshire. After many happy years of taking their holidays in Spain she and her husband, now have a second home in Norfolk. Being only a short drive, they can visit for a few days at a time, which suits their busy lifestyle these days. They are only just across the road from the sea, and can see it from their windows. At home and at the sea they enjoy watching the wildlife and have many visitors to their gardens, particularly squirrels. Anne loves watching their antics and spoils both them and her birds shamelessly. She also loves to see the flocks of geese and other birds flying in over the sea during the autumn, to winter in the milder climes of this country. Anne loves to write about the beauty of nature and sometimes puts a little into her books, though they are mostly about love and romance. She writes for her own enjoyment and to give pleasure to her readers.
She is very multitalented and has the following books out:
The novels published so far are:
Published under the name: LINDA SOLE
Title
Publisher
Availability
JUSTICE IS SERVED
Severn House
LIB-PUB-AMA
A MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE
Severn House
LIB-PUB-AMA
WISH DOWN THE MOON
Severn House
LIB-PUB-AMA
A BRIGHT NEW DAY
Severn House
LIB-PUB-AMA
GIVE ME TOMMOROW
Severn House
LIB-PUB-AMA
AMY
Severn House
LIB-PUB-AMA
KATHY
Severn House
LIB-PUB-AMA
SONG FOR ATHENA
Severn House
LIB-PUB-AMA
BRIDGET
Severn House
LIB-PUB-AMA
A ROSE IN WINTER
Severn House
LIB-PUB-AMA
THE CORNISH ROSE
Severn House
LIB-PUB-AMA
THE ROSE ARCH
Severn House
LIB-PUB-AMA
THE HEARTS THAT HOLD >
Severn House
LIB-PUB-AMA
THE BONDS THAT BREAK >
Severn House
LIB-PUB-AMA
THE TIES THAT BIND >
Severn House
LIB-PUB-AMA
FLAME CHILD
Severn House
LIB-PUB-AMA
SPRING WILL COME
Piatkus
LIB-PUB-AMA
THIS LAND THIS LOVE
Piatkus
LIB-PUB-AMA
ALL THEIR DAYS
Piatkus
LIB-PUB-AMA
SHADOW PLAYERS
Century/Arrow
LIB
THE LAST SUMMER OF INNOCENCE
Century/Arrow
LIB
LOVERS & SINNERS
Century/Arrow
LIB
Key to above table:
>
= part of a trilogy
LIB
= Available from the Library
ULV
= Available in Ulverscroft Large Print series are available from Amazon
PUB
= Available from the publisher
AMA
= Available from Amazon
Severn House, who will publish the new books over the next few years, published these books. Most of the Severn House books are still available, though the earlier ones are out of print and only on library shelves.
Linda often writes in the first person, though THIS LAND THIS LOVE is written in the third. Many of the novels published under the name of Linda Sole are sagas, but she also writes suspense/romance.
SHADOW PLAYERS & FLAME CHILD are both suspense/romance. The others published so far are classified as sagas, but there is usually an element of mystery or danger in all Linda's books.
Published under the name: ANNE HERRIES
Title
Publisher
Availability
MARRYING CAPTAIN JACK
*
LIB-PUB-AMA
MARRIED BY CHRISTMAS
*
LIB-PUB-AMA
MARIANNE AND THE MARQUIS
*
LIB-PUB-AMA
A WORTHY GENTLEMAN
*
LIB-PUB-AMA
A WEALTHY WIDOW
*
LIB-PUB-AMA
AN IMPROPER COMPANION
*
LIB-PUB-AMA
THE STEEPWOOD SCANDALS
*
LIB-PUB-AMA
THE SEEDS OF SIN
Severn House
LIB-PUB-AMA
LOVE LIES WEEPING
Severn House
LIB-PUB-AMA
RANSOM BRIDE
*
LIB-PUB-AMA
LOVERS AND ENEMIES
Severn House
LIB-PUB-AMA
HER KNIGHT PROTECTOR
*
LIB-PUB-AMA
MY LADY, MY LOVE
Severn House
LIB-PUB-AMA
A KNIGHT OF HONOUR
*
LIB-PUB-AMA
A VERY SPECIAL MOTHER'S DAY
Mills & Boon
LIB-PUB-AMA
A PERFECT KNIGHT
*
LIB-PUB-AMA
MILADY'S REVENGE
Severn House
LIB-PUB-AMA
THE ADVENTURES WIFE
*
LIB-PUB-AMA
LADY IN WAITING
*
LIB-PUB-AMA
A WICKED WENCH
; Severn House
LIB-PUB-AMA
A DAMNABLE ROGUE
*
LIB-PUB-AMA
THE SHEIKH
*
LIB-PUB-AMA
CAPTIVE OF THE HAREM
*
LIB-PUB-AMA
COUNTERFEIT EARL - another part of the Steepwood Scandal.
*
LIB-PUB-AMA
THE ABDUCTED BRIDE
*
LIB-PUB-AMA
THE SPANISH PRACTICE
**
LIB-PUB-AMA
LORD RAVENSDEN'S MARRIAGE - Anne's first part of the Steepwood Scandal (a sixteen book series starting in May 2001)
*
LIB-PUB-AMA
SARA'S SECRET
**
LIB-PUB-AMA
THE MOST PRECIOUS GIFT
**
LIB-PUB-AMA
ROSALYN & THE SCOUNDREL
*
LIB-PUB-AMA
A MATTER OF HONOUR
*
LIB
SATAN'S MARK
*
LIB
AN IDEAL MATCH
*
LIB
RACING HEARTS
*****
LIB-ULV
THE MARRIAGE CHESTS
***
LIB-ULV
ROSANNA & THE RAKE
*
LIB
THE DEVIL'S MERCENARY
*
LIB
FOR LOVE AND LIBERTY
*
LIB
THE SPANISH WITCH
*
LIB
THE FLAME & THE SWORD
*
LIB
RAPHAEL
****
LIB
THE SLEEPING DEMON
*
LIB
THE WILD HEART
*
LIB
DEMON'S WOMAN
****
LIB-ULV
BEWARE THE CONQUEROR
****
LIB-ULV
THE WOLF OF ALVAR
****
LIB-ULV
DEVIL'S KIN
****
LIB-ULV
Key to above table:
>
= part of a trilogy
LIB
= Available from the Library
ULV
= Available in Ulverscroft Large Print series are available from Amazon
PUB
= Available from the publisher
AMA
= Available from Amazon
*
= Published by Harlequin Mills & Boon (Historical Romance)
**
Published by Harlequin Mills & Boon (Medical Romance)
***
Published by Harper Collins (Historical Romance)
****
Published by Harlequin Mills & Boon and Ulverscroft Large Print (Historical Romance)
*****
Published many moons ago, but now republished by Ulverscroft and available
Other titles to be announced approximately every four months.
Paperbacks can be bought from stores such as WHS or from the Reader Club direct from HM&B, or Amazon. And of course you can find all the new ones on the library shelves. If they aren't there – ask!
Published under the name: EMMA QUINCEY
Title
Publisher
Availability
FORGOTTEN SINS
Piatkus
LIB-PUB-AMA
HER MOTHER'S SINS
Piatkus
LIB-PUB-AMA
Published under the name: LYNN GRANVILLE
Title
Publisher
Availability
BITTER SWEET
Robert Hale
LIB-ULV
DARK BLOWS THE WIND
Robert Hale
LIB-ULV
PAGAN FIRES
Robert Hale
LIB-ULV
THE WITCH CHILD
Robert Hale
LIB-ULV
Published under the name: JULIANA LINDEN
Title
Publisher
Availability
IN THE NAME OF HONOUR
Aspire (paper back)
LIB-PUB-AMA