With grace and patience, Winsome walked Hebe around the room, making her known to those she hadn’t met, and encouraging all her former friends hug or kiss her, as if she were a whole brand new person.
When Hebe had accepted condolences, happy kisses, and discussed her current situation innumerable times, Winsome bore her outside to the parterre garden she had recently re-designed. The spring annuals were in full bloom and lined the edges with pink and blue flowers. Within a year, the hedges would begin to link and the fan shape would be more pronounced.
Although she would normally be as enthused as her friend, Hebe’s mind focused on everything but Winsome’s plans for the rest of the garden.
Hebe could now afford Rydale, but could she make him want her?
OTHER BOOKS BY VIRGINIA TAYLOR
CONTEMPORARY SERIES
SETS APPEAL
PERFECT SCENTS
GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY
HISTORICAL SOUTH LANDERS SERIES
WENNA
CHARLOTTE
ELLA
STARLING
REGENCY SHORTS
SINFULLY DELICIOUS
BEAUTIFULLY RECKLESS (OCTOBER)
ARTFULLY WICKED
DELICOUSLY HAZARDOUS (OCTOBER)
Virginia Taylor had no talents other than messing around with a pencil and a pad of paper, and reading under the bedclothes at night. At the age of eight, she won a coloring-in contest, which led her to believe she should pursue the life of an artist. After dropping out of the South Australian School of Art, she worked in interior design for a year, before deciding a life of penury was not for her. Her next venture was as a nurse/midwife, during which time she met and married the perfect man (for her). In time, she produced two daughters, wrangled five or six cats, numerous guinea pigs, hurt and injured birds and lizards, learned how to spin, weave, dye, pot, work with leather, paint and renovate houses, and then how to write books. A publishing contract not being forthcoming after a few years of intensive striving, she joined with a theatre set designer and painted his sets for him. While she did so, he taught her the mechanics she needed to design and paint her own. In the meantime, she entered writing competitions, until she was sure of making the finals or winning.
She was finally offered her first contracts in 2013, by Random House.
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