Lavender Morning ~ Jude Deveraux
This is the first book in the new Edilean series.
Jocelyn Minton grew up alone in her family, she had parents and sisters, but there was no one who really understood her. Until Edilean Harcourt moved in down the street, once Jocelyn met the elderly Miss Edi, she knew she had found a kindred soul. After Jocelyn was grown, and Edi knew that her time on earth was limited, she decided it was time to set things in motion. Edi left everything she owned to Jocelyn, in hopes that Jocelyn would not be too upset by the truth that had been hidden from her for so many years.
Once Jocelyn reaches Edilean, Virginia, she quickly realizes that not only is there a whole new town to learn but there is far more to Miss Edi’s story than she ever knew. Can Jocelyn discover the truth or will the town prevent her?
Return to Summerhouse ~ Jude Deveraux
this is a sequal to Summerhouse.
After Amy Hawthorne has a miscarriage she spends a great deal of time depressed, so her husband Stephen, sends her to a cottage for a weekend in maine. Amy does not want to go spend a weekend with strangers, but soon discovers that everyone there has suffered a loss of some kind and she wonders how this is supposed to help her. Amy soon starts having strange dreams, where if she is hit in the dream, she wakes up bruised. She has no clue what is happening to her, but decides to start researching it.
While researching the people she is dreaming about Amy finds a business card to Madame Zoya, who offers to let you repair your past. Not believing that it could be possible, Amy decides to go visit her anyway, and ends up spending three weeks in eighteenth centruy england, trying to alter what has happened in her dreams.
Secrets ~ Jude Deveraux
Cassie Madden has been in love with the same man since she was twelve. Now, at twenty five, she is working in widower Jeff Ames home as his live in nanny to his five year old daughter. Suddenly it seems as though something is not right, things seem one way on the surface, but if you pay attention, they tell another story entirely. Can Cassie figure out what is up with all the secrets, and will she survive the discovery?
Someone to Love ~ Jude Deveraux
this is book 457 in the Montgomery series (honestly, I am not sure what number it is, and I am too lazy to hunt them all out and count. Jude has a large series on the extensive Montgomery – Taggart family, through several centuries) Jace Montgomery has been mourning the death of his fiance for the last three years. and has recently found a clue as to why she might have committed suicide, so he heads to England to find out. Along the way he meets ghosts, and encounters all the particularities of a small English town.
Mountain Laurel ~ Jude Deveraux
By Jude Deveraux. Takes place in pre-civil war era old west mining camps. One of Deveraux’s Montgomery Saga (only word for it… There are LOTS of her Montgomery books!!) I hadn’t read this one in quite some time, and had forgotten how good it was.. An Army captain, ‘Ring Montgomery, is assigned to guard and protect an opera singer, La Riena, as she tours mining camps singing for the miners. All is not as it seems to be, as they both soon find out, and the adventure is just beginning!!
