However, there's a disastrous run-in with a highwayman while en route to Edenbrooke. Her fraternal twin, Cecily, has been enjoying life in London and plans to snag the estate's heir, while Marianne is looking forward to seeing her sister again and enjoying the countryside. When 17-year-old Marianne Daventry is invited by her sister to spend the summer at Edenbrooke, the country estate of a family friend, she is ecstatic to leave the boredom of Bath, England, with its unwanted suitor with a penchant for bad poetry and her grandmother's critical eye. Labeled "A Proper Romance," "Edenbrooke" is the first of a new brand of romance novel by publisher Shadow Mountain, an imprint of Deseret Book, that includes clean love stories - without unnecessary bedroom scenes, sexual themes or bursting bodices. "Edenbrooke" is a Regency-era love story for those who like a well-crafted yet clean romance novel. " EDENBROOKE ," by Julianne Donaldson, Shadow Mountain, $15.99, 272 pages (f)
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