Elizabeth Buchan

What happens when the mistress becomes the wife? Minty Lloyd is now the second wife to her husband, Nathan--but she is shunned by his friends, despised by his grown children, and haunted by her very much alive, and quite reborn, predecessor Rose. Yet after a shocking phone call, Minty finds herself united with an unexpected ally--the woman she once betrayed.--From publisher description.

With gentle but penetrating wit and insight, Elizabeth Buchan tells the story oftwo women whose lives are separated by fifty years, but linked in a varietyof subtle and surprising ways as they try to make sense of the conflictingdemands of liberation and duty, freedom and necessity, and the labyrinthinepursuit of happiness...

After nineteen years as the perfect wife to an ambitious politician, forty-eight-year-old Fanny Savage is faced with a feeling of restlessness, despite her love for her husband and teenage daughter, and begins to question her life.

Married for twenty-five years, Rose Lloyd, a London book review editor, finds herself starting over when her husband, who works at the same newspaper, leaves her for Minty, her young assistant co-worker.

Sarah remains deeply in love with her husband of ten years. Boone Walker, a professional baseball player, travels almost year-round while Sarah stays home and cares for their two children. Living apart most of the time makes life difficult, especially since Sarah often wonders whether Boone is sharing his bed with other women on the road. When Boone faces yet another career change, it adds more stress to an already turbulent marriage.

Catherine Anderson and Clay Forrester come from two completely different worlds, but one blind date leaves them forever linked. Clay, a handsome law student, and Catherine, a serious, bookish undergrad, experience an evening they will never forget. Fortified by the beauty of the night, as well as a bottle of wine, they share a night together. A few short months later, Catherine discovers she's pregnant. They agree to a marriage of convenience, an arrangement that suits them both-until they begin to fall in love.

Kathleen O'Malley Stallworth a mail order bride? Not likely! But the Lord works in mysterious ways. Her parents and siblings died in the great Chicago fire; her husband was killed by a mugger; now her fabulously wealthy in-laws have taken her daughter Megan from her, claiming she's not fit to be a mother. In a newspaper ad for a mail order bride, Kathleen sees a chance to seek revenge on the Stallworth family. Instead, her westward adventure transforms her world and restores her faith. She returns to Chicago to fight for Megan but soon discovers God has prepared a victory she could never have imagined.From the Trade Paperback edition.

Bought by the Beatrix Potter Society at Sotheby's in 1994, the diary was written by Beatrix Potter in 1905 while on holiday with her family in Wales, and it spans the last two weeks of the life of her fiancé and editor Norman Warne. An introduction sets the scene, and there is a short history of the Warne Family by Judy Taylor based on unpublished diaries and letters. Illustrated with photographs and sketches, and with seven of Beatrix Potter's water-colours reproduced in colour.

"Minty Lloyd struggles to make her life work as Nathan's second wife. Mother to six-year-old twins, sidelined at family gatherings by Nathan's hostile family, ostracized by his friends, she is haunted by the shadow of the glowing, successful Rose - Nathan's first wife. 'The trouble is, ' she concludes, 'everything I do is second-hand.' Yet - such is the curious nature of fate - Minty finds herself united in loss with an unexpected ally - the woman she once betrayed."--Jacket.