Ms. Jennings novels
always have a down to earth feel to them. You easily get involved with her
characters and root for them. In "At Love's Bidding", we begin with a
mystery as we meet Miranda Wimplegate and her family who run an auction house in
Boston for high end antiques. They accidentally auction off a painting and
Miranda and her grandfather find themselves heading for the wilds of Missouri
to another auction house they've
purchased in order to get the painting back. It turns out the new auction house
is a stock auction barn run by Wyatt Ballentine.
When the painting
shows up, it is a mysterious item that arrives off the same train that the
Wimplegates arrived on and it is addressed to Wyatt. It comes with a letter
addressing his heritage--that of the LeBlanc's of Boston.
Miranda's
grandfather begins to act erratically, his memory failing him, and insulting
Wyatt at every turn as Wyatt tries to help with his new purchase. In the
meantime, despite a bad first impression by Miranda and wrong assumptions by
Wyatt, they begin to find themselves strongly attracted to each other.
Surprises at every
turn, a mystery to the end, "At Love's Bidding" should definitely be
on your reading list.
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