In their ‘battle of wits’ we are introduced to the rest of the residents, who get their own HEA’s later and we land ourselves amid Spindle Cove, where across the greens we know is the tavern, the blacksmith, the All Things Shop and the Queen’s Ruby. Needless to say they find love even though she is determined to save her personal utopia and he quite hell bent to create a militia amid the village. Susanna finds her match in Victor Bramwell, the new Earl of Rycliff, who has invaded her haven with his makeshift army. Wednesdays, in the garden.” And of course on Thursday’s they have shooting practice !! Its her own piece of utopia and here she leads the ladies through various weekly activities … “Mondays are country walks. or aren’t there?īook One, A Night to Surrender, opens with Susanna Finch, who has all but created Spindle Cove. And also where there are no eligible men.

It’s where the ‘odd ones’ are sent to recuperate, recover and ‘find themselves’. Or are they? – Spindle Cove is known as Spinster Cove for just that reason. From Susanna through to Charlotte, it was a perfect series in all ways – funny, engrossing and always leaving you wanting more.Īs the opening of the books reveal – Welcome to Spindle Cove, where the ladies with delicate constitutions come for the sea air, and men in their prime are… nowhere to be found. And of course, we do love a series – where characters grow and evolve as you go from book to book where the cameo characters take on a life of their own and get their own stories where you are given glimpses of past characters who fell in love had their own happily ever afters but still leave you wanting to know more and where the setting becomes so real that you feel you are in there living and one with the characters in that small world. Tessa Dare came as a delightful surprise to me, and I have been on a binge read of her books since I began.

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