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“He held my hand and it was the hand of the man I had married, lost and found again.”.”

April 18, 2015 by Malin Leave a Comment

In the novella Whisper of Jasmine, dashing explorer and archaeologist Gabriel Starke meets quiet dreamer Evangeline Merriweather at a New Year’s party thrown by their socialite friend Delilah Drummond. While Delilah most certainly intended to matchmake at the party, she had picked out completely different partners for both of them. Instead, Gabriel and Evie are instantly smitten with each other, and over the course of an evening, fall hard enough for each other that they decide to elope to Scotland. There are quite a few […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Romance Tagged With: 1920s, adventure, archeology, CBR7, City of Jasmine, Deanna Raybourn, historical fiction, Malin, novella, romance, Whisper of Jasmine

Malin's CBR7 Review No:40 · Genres: Fiction, History, Romance · Tags: 1920s, adventure, archeology, CBR7, City of Jasmine, Deanna Raybourn, historical fiction, Malin, novella, romance, Whisper of Jasmine ·
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