'Meet Adam, metalwork artist and New York darling, who’s so worried he’s burned out he accepts an offer from his godmother to forge a replica ancient bell for an historical society’s building renovation project in Upstate New York. All he wants is peace, and no deadlines, so he can rediscover his artist’s spark.
'Meet Prue, fastidious and punctual university lecturer and student of early American architecture. Her future depends on her finishing her thesis. Lucky for her, the bell tower renovation project she’s writing her last piece on is almost finished. All she wants is to see the bell installed, so she can be on her way to secure her future.
'Too bad they can’t both get what they want ...'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
The Umbrella Diaries
Australia
:
Jellyfish Press
,
2020
20828591
2020
single work
novella
romance
'Duncan needs a hero -- he just isn’t expecting her to turn up on his front porch under a tattered red umbrella.
'Marianne needs a new venue for her dance school to escape the unwanted attentions of a creepy groundsman, so the For Let advertisement in the newspaper seems like a lucky omen. Enquiries to 241 Hope Street, Clementine Springs, between four and five pm, today only.
'She plucks an umbrella from the stand in the hallway and sets off to make her enquiry. Her dance school business means everything to her; since the injury which destroyed her career, it’s the only dream for her future she has left. And today, she’s feeling lucky.
'Duncan doesn’t leave his house. Not today, not yesterday, not since he left the hospital all those months ago with steel pins holding his leg together and the words of a dying teenager imprinted forever on his brain.
'Turns out, he doesn’t mind living grumpy and alone in his big old house. At least, that’s what he’s been telling himself.
'But then one day a young ballet teacher knocks on his door and pirouettes her way straight into his heart. Duncan’s going to have to find the courage to forgive himself if he wants a chance at living in the world again. And now he’s got a reason to try.
'On the shore of a lake deep in the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains, Clementine Springs is home to a heart-warming cast of characters. The Umbrella Diaries is Marianne and Duncan’s story.'
Source : publisher's blurb
