A Promising Start

• Series: The Brynthwaite Boys #1
• Author: Merry Farmer
• Publisher: author
• Year: 2015
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Book Description

In the tradition of the costume dramas serials that captivate millions comes this twelve episode story of the lives and loves of three friends in Victorian England.

Episode One:

Brynthwaite, Cumbria – 1895. Three men who were raised as close as brothers at the Brynthwaite Municipal Orphanage have returned home after making a name for themselves in the world.

Jason Throckmorton has always been a fighter. After leaving Brynthwaite, he clawed his way to the top of the business world, making a name for himself as a hotelier. Now he has built a luxury hotel in Brynthwaite itself, a draw for wealthy tourists wishing to take in the Lake District. His real designs are on Lady Elizabeth, the woman he has obsessed about since he was a boy. Jason has a dark secret, though. His personal demons could destroy him. But help comes in the form of the clever and insightful Flossie Stowe, a maid Jason hires to work in his hotel—a woman who harbors secrets of her own.

Dr. Marshall Pycroft left Brynthwaite to become a doctor, making a name for himself in London. His true desire is to heal the sick and downtrodden, and when Brynthwaite Municipal Orphanage was converted into Brynthwaite Hospital, he returned home to head it, taking his London wife and three daughters with him. Life refuses to give Marshall a rest, however, and he has his hands full between the understaffed, under-funded hospital and his shrewish, overbearing wife. Until help comes along in the unlikely form of Dr. Alexandra Dyson, a lady in her own right as well as a qualified doctor. But Alexandra’s mother has other plans for her disobedient doctor—plans that could land the hospital in hot water.

Lawrence Smith never truly left Brynthwaite. As the local blacksmith, he plays a pivotal role in town, but as a well-known hedonist and reputed practitioner of old, pagan ways, he is both a subject of fascination and speculation. When a mysterious woman arrives on his doorstep with no memory, speculation runs rampant. How long will it take before her past catches up to her and puts Lawrence in danger?

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