Carousel of Hearts
by Mary Jo Putney
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Love is in the air, but where is Cupid aiming his darts? Spirited and beautiful, Antonia Thornton is a baroness in her own right. Her companion and best friend is Judith Winslow, a quiet intellectual with a love of natural philosophy. Then, Antonia's childhood friend, Adam Yorke, returns from India and brings his friend, the outrageously handsome Simon, Lord Launceston. They all like each other, love is in the air-and they are all too noble for their own good! Can four confused young people show more sort themselves out properly before it's too late? show lessTags
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What a fun historical romance. Halfway through I honestly wasn't sure who was going to end up with who. I really wanted to peak at the end but refrained. Adam and his friend Lord Simon return from India to visit his childhood friend and distant cousin Lady Antonia and her companion/friend Judith.
Baroness Antonia Thornton is a beautiful woman who has a fortune of her own and no patience with fortune hunters. Judith Winslow is a widow working as a paid companion to Antonia. At first Antonia was reluctant to take on Judith but after a while good sense prevailed and the two of them get on very well.
Adam Yorke returns to England from a long time away in India making his fortune, with him he brings his good friend Simon, Lord Launcheston, who is dashing and handsome. Both women are attracted to both men but who will win the women and will they get a happy ending.
It's a romance, the story is pretty predictable but the ride was fun.
Adam Yorke returns to England from a long time away in India making his fortune, with him he brings his good friend Simon, Lord Launcheston, who is dashing and handsome. Both women are attracted to both men but who will win the women and will they get a happy ending.
It's a romance, the story is pretty predictable but the ride was fun.
Particularly good; mismatched couples rearrange themselves in a satisfactory manner, the quiet companion gets her man!
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Romance writer Mary Jo Putney was born in New York and graduated from Syracuse University with degrees in English literature and Industrial design. She served as the art editor of The New Internationalist magazine in London and worked as a designer in California before settling in Baltimore, Maryland in 1980 to run her own freelance graphic design show more business Her first novel was a traditional Regency romance, which sold in one week. Signet liked the novel so much that it offered Putney a three-book contract. In 1987 that first novel, The Diabolical Baron, was published. Since then, she has published more than twenty-nine books. Her books have been ranked on the national bestseller lists of the New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly. Most of her books have been historical romance. She has also begun writing fantasy romance and romantic fantasy. Putney has won the Romance Writers of America RITA Award twice, for Dancing on the Wind and The Rake and the Reformer and has been a RITA finalist nine times. She is on the Romance Writers of America Honor Roll for bestselling authors, and has been awarded two Romantic Times Career Achievement Awards and four Golden Leaf Awards. Her titles include: Dark Mirror, Dark Passage, No Longer a Gentleman, Never Less than a Lady, and Nowhere Near Respectable. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Carousel of Hearts
- Original publication date
- 1989-11
- People/Characters
- Lady Antonia Thorton; Judith Winslow; Adam Yorke; Simon Launceston, Baron Launceston
- Important places
- England, UK
- Dedication
- To Ruth Cohen, who is everything an agent should be, and more.
- First words
- With a qualm that would have amazed the polite world , the dowager Lady Forrester drew a deep breath, then announced, Since your refuse to engage a companion, I've done it for you.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)As she pointed out with invincible logic, it wasn't the sort of thing you could give to just anyone.
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