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Slowly she turned to face the door just as Graham came through at full stride. At the sight of him a wild kind of joy seized her. Graham halted on the threshold. He drew in his breath sharply, and in spite of himself, his pulse thundered at the sight of the tall, willowy figure. The last time he had seen Avril she had been a child. Here in her place was a graceful young woman. "Avril, my dear," he said, finding his voice. "Welcome home!" Fortune's Bride, the third in a series of show more award-winning novels by Jane Peart, is a revision of the story of Avril Dumont, a wealthy young heiress and orphan, who gradually comes to terms with her lonely adolescence. There is romance and heartbreak, true love and fulfillment in this story of Avril's seemingly unreturned but undaunted love for her bachelor guardian, Graham Montrose. Readers of Fortune's Bride will be smitten with the charm of the old South as they follow Avril's development into womanhood, and meet the people who give her a sense of self-worth. So skillfully drawn is the plot of this romance that the reader will suffer form ongoing suspense throughout Avril's story. show lessTags
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The feeling of nostalgia is strong for me in this one. I remember the days of being 13 or 14 years old and my friends spoke about this book in hushed tones because it was so romantic and wonderful.
I do still like it, in a way. But if you don't like stories where an older man adopts someone and then marries her years later, then you'll have a problem with this one.
I do still like it, in a way. But if you don't like stories where an older man adopts someone and then marries her years later, then you'll have a problem with this one.
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Jane Peart went to college in New England and worked as an airline attendant before becoming a full-time writer. She is the author of over 60 books in both the secular and Christian markets. She writes several series including Brides of Montclair, Westward Dreams, American Quilts, Orphan Train West, and Edgecliffe Manor Mysteries. She is also a show more visual artist. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Fortune's Bride
- Original title
- Fortune's Bride
- Original publication date
- 1987-02
- People/Characters
- Avril Dumon; Graham Montrose; Jamison Buchanan; Rebecca Buchanan; Logan Cameron
- Epigraph
- None without hop e'er loved . . . .
But love can hope
Where reason should despair.
---Lord Lyttelton - Dedication
- For "Mayme"
In appreciation of years
of love and devotion - First words
- Prologue
Mayfield, Virginia
Summer 1806
What is come upon us? . . . Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. We are orphans.
&nbs... (show all)p; Lamentations 5:1-3
The wheels of the handsome black and gold carriage rolled up the winding drive leading to the large house of mellowed brick, half-hidden by the tall elms surrounding it.
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- Fiction and Literature, Christian Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction, Fantasy
- DDC/MDS
- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PS3566 .E238 .F67 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Individual authors 1961-
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