An excerpt…

“Why will I need to be made easy at a commonplace evening in my own home with my closest friend?”

Her father answered, “Lawrence Trellaway has returned home and we want to do our part in welcoming him. Your mother and I think it is not too much to ask of you to behave prettily.”

While her parents exchanged looks of triumph, Eugenia scowled and sneaked a scrap of warm buttered bread down to Mister Cavendish who was resting his head in her lap beneath the table. Under his furry eyebrows, his eyes rolled up to look at his mistress with an expression, Eugenia was sure, of sympathetic misery.”

Creatures of Habit

Book One: Spring

The Boy Next Door Returns

All Lawrie wants when he comes home to Cherrybrook after wartime service is to return to his gardening and peaceful country life; a life without taking orders. Instead, he finds his parents are as determined as ever to push him at their neighbours' daughter, Eugenia, whom he recalls as a bossy girl with a penchant for injured animals.

Eugenia is a creature of habit, determined to keep her life the way it is. She likes her independence, her animals and her flowers. Besides, Lawrie had been such an ordinary boy...

The last thing that either of them wants is to exchange their freedom for a marriage planned by their determined parents, but as spring turns to summer Lawrie and Eugenia begin to wonder, would it really be so bad for love to bloom where it was planted?

TAGS: late Regency, Christian religious setting but not inspirational, sweet, no bedroom scenes, Persuasion/Rupert Penry-Jones/Captain Wentworth, Beatrix, early Victorian

What readers are saying…

Reader writes… “The perfect book for an afternoon read. Loved the prose and characters. Looking forward to reading the next in the series.”

Vibliophile writes… “The premise seems rather simple & understated, but the author writes her characters & dialogue with a richness that is an absolute pleasure….

Avid readers of Regency & relationship development stories are guaranteed to love it!”