A Most Affectionate Mother: Sweet Tea Stories

By Maria Grace

Mary goes to the library looking for escape, not love.

 

With three daughters married in a single year, one would think that Mrs. Bennet's matchmaking ploys would diminish. One would be wrong.  Very wrong.

To avoid her mother's affectionate arts, Mary takes refuge at Clarke's library.  There, in the reading room, she can forget the trials of Longbourn, lost in the pages of her favorite books.

 

The strategy works—surprisingly well in fact—until the morning a tall, handsome stranger wants the same book she has already checked out—a text she needs to help a friend. Instead of politely waiting until she is finished with it, as a proper gentleman would, he insists she give it up to him immediately. When she rejects his demands—the audacity of it all!—he refuses to take no for answer, and appears on Longbourn's doorstep.

 

Now Mama has seen him, matchmaking is not far behind.

 

Mary is determined to escape Mama's machinations at all costs. But, maybe, just maybe, this time Mama is right.

• Language: English
• Publisher: White Soup Press
• Release date: Nov 19, 2018
• ISBN: 9781386027867

Maria Grace

Though Maria Grace has been writing fiction since she was ten years old, those early efforts happily reside in a file drawer and are unlikely to see the light of day again, for which many are grateful. After penning five file-drawer novels in high school, she took a break from writing to pursue college and earn her doctorate in Educational Psychology. After 16 years of university teaching, she returned to her first love, fiction writing.   She has one husband, two graduate degrees and two black belts, three sons, four undergraduate majors, five nieces, six more novels in draft form, waiting for editing, seven published novels, sewn eight Regency era costumes, shared her life with nine cats through the years and tries to run at least ten miles a week.