About the Series
While most stories set in Regency England focus on the rich, the young, and the beautiful, award-winning author Carolyn Miller decided she wanted to give readers something different for a change. Her new Regency Wallflowers series follows the commoners, away from the hustle and bustle of 1810s London, out in the Lake District of England. She tells the stories of women who are slightly older and have few prospects for marriage, women who might be considered “wallflowers.”
About the Book
How can a meek wallflower help a returning war hero whose dreams are plunged into darkness?
Mary Bloomfield has no illusions. Her chances for matrimony have long since passed her by. Still, her circumstances are pleasant enough, especially now that she has found purpose in assisting her father with his medical practice in England’s beautiful Lake District. Even without love, it’s a peaceful life.
That is until Adam Edgerton returns to the sleepy district. This decorated war hero did not arrive home to acclaim and rest, but to a new battle against the repercussions of an insidious disease. Mary’s caring nature cannot stand to see someone suffer–but how can she help this man see any brightness in his future when he’s plunged into melancholic darkness, his dreams laid waste by his condition?
Adam wants no charity, but he’s also no coward. If this gentle woman can work hard, how can he do less? Together they struggle to find a way forward for him. Frustration and antipathy slowly develop into friendship and esteem. Then a summer storm atop a mountain peak leads to scandal–and both Mary and Adam must search the depths of their closed hearts for answers if they hope to find any future path with happiness at its end.
Best-selling author Carolyn Miller is back with a fresh series that will not only thrill readers eager for more of her work, but bring in new fans looking for beautiful writing, fascinating research, deftly woven love stories, and real faith lived out in the Regency period.
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My Impressions
“God’s goodness did not fade away simply because she did not perceive it. Circumstances were not a faithful prism through which to see God’s love. God’s love, like the sun, always remained.” Englishman Adam Edgerton, a local hero, and favored son has yet to learn this as he feels God has deserted him. In 1811, he returns from war, injured and broken. Can sweet, positive, wallflower Mary Bloomfield nurse back to health not only his body but his soul? These two are brought together by unusual circumstances. Miller kept me spell-bound as I watched each of them transform the other.
Miller weaves a compelling regency with a strong faith message. It isn’t overbearing, but it is prominent, part of the necessary fabric.
“What if God did want people to trust Him to act in miraculous ways today? Was it presumptuous to believe in healing miracles? Or was it faith?” So many questions for God as Emily and Adam each work out their own faith.
I loved seeing the family dynamics play out in Emily’s family, Adam’s family, and Susan’s. Sometimes one wonders if a character’s family had been different, would that have altered his or her personality?
An animal is recognized as being an important part of Adam’s healing. I love this concept and the way it is integrated into the story.
Why does God answer some prayers and not others? At the end of the novel, I still grapple with this main question. But, like Mary and Adam, I’m willing to trust God to make the plans and to lean hard into His ways.
I received a copy of this book from the author and publisher via Read with Audra. No positive recommendation was required, and all thoughts are solely my own. Because of content, recommended for adults and mature teens.
My Rating
Magnificent! A Regency to Remember
About the Author
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| Carolyn Miller is an inspirational romance author who lives in the beautiful Southern Highlands of New South Wales, Australia, with her husband and four children. A longtime lover of romance, especially that of Jane Austen and Georgette Heyer’s Regency era, Carolyn holds a BA in English literature and loves drawing readers into fictional worlds that show the truth of God’s grace in our lives. She enjoys music, films, gardens, art, travel, and food. Miller’s novels have won a number of RWA and ACFW contests. She is a member of American Christian Fiction Writers and Australasian Christian Writers. Learn more about Carolyn at www.carolynmillerauthor.com, or find her on Facebook (Carolyn Miller Author), Instagram (@CarolynMillerAuthor), and Twitter (@CarolynMAuthor). |
GIVEAWAY
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– a fun pair of Jane Austen socks
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– “Drink tea, read books, and be happy” tea spoon
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