Brynthwaite Summer by Merry Farmer
Agatha Crimpley is the happiest woman in the cozy, lakeside town of Brynthwaite. She is liked and respected, her father is all set to entrust her with a great deal of responsibility, and she is in love with the dashing and intelligent Mr. Andrew Noble. But Aggie is about to discover that even in the modern and progressive 1880s, who a woman gives her heart to can have shocking consequences.
Andrew Noble might have been born in Africa, but after being raised in England by white parents, he considers himself as much an Englishman as anyone else. But he is not foolish enough to think that falling in love with Aggie will be easy, and when a letter arrives from a former colleague of his adopted father’s, hinting that his origins might not be what he thinks they are, his life takes a major turn.
Can Aggie and Andrew’s love survive the shock of a major turn of fortune? Or will a careless indiscretion prove to Aggie that one’s reputation is only skin deep?
- File Name:brynthwaite-summer-by-merry-farmer.epub
- Original Title:Brynthwaite Summer: A Silver Foxes of Westminster Novella
- Creator:Merry Farmer
- Language:en
- Identifier:MOBI-ASIN:B07GBG9DTF
- Date:2018-08-07T16:00:00+00:00
- File Size:203.468 KB
Table of Content
- 1. Title Page
- 2. Copyright
- 3. Contents
- 4. Chapter 1
- 5. Chapter 2
- 6. Chapter 3
- 7. Chapter 4
- 8. Chapter 5
- 9. Chapter 6
- 10. Chapter 7
- 11. Chapter 8
- 12. Chapter 9
- 13. Chapter 10
- 14. Epilogue
- 15. About the Author
- 16. Acknowledgments
Braithwaite Summer, Book 3.6 of The Silver Foxes of Westminster series (and Book 2 of the Brynthwaite series), was about Miss Agatha "Aggie" Crimpley, the daughter of Mr. Robert Crimpley (owner of Crimpley’s Market), and Mr. Andrew Noble, a man of African descent. Found as a newborn in Cape Town, South Africa, Andrew was raised by a British couple and taken back to England where he grew up and attended school. Not knowing his true origins other than where he had been found and who had raised him, Andrew resigned himself to never knowing more. Aggie, having been born and raised in Brynthwaite, always wanted more than a woman was allowed. She had ideas that were believed to be too high for a woman of their time...especially the fact that she loved Andrew. While Andrew knew that no one in the town would accept their relationship, Aggie didn't believe that to be true, so she pushed their relationship into the public eye, only to find herself ostracized by those she thought were her friends. Andrew, having received a letter from a colonel in Cape Town stating he knew about his true origins, determined he needed to make the trip there as the colonel's health was precarious and he desperately wanted to know about his family. However, Aggie couldn't understand Andrew's need to find the truth. This was a sad story of an interracial couple who just wanted to be together but society was completely against it. No matter what they did, everyone either turned their backs or outright spurned them. There was no humor, little passion, and a great deal of prejudice in this book. The main characters, though both strong and well-developed, were lacking in so many other ways. Aggie was extremely naive and pushed Andrew into doing things that caused a great deal of heartache. She was manipulative and immature as well, using Andrew's emotions against him time and time again, no matter how hard he tried to tell her the truth about how they would be treated as a mixed couple. The story ended with a bit of a cliffhanger...well more than just a bit...leaving the reader to stew without having closure on the news of Andrew's past. It wasn't that great of a story, for it focused more on the tumultuous times regarding interracial relationships than it did on the love between Aggie and Andrew. The book definitely did not earn a five-star rating, mainly because of how it ended.