Bøger af Belinda Kroll

It is a truth universally acknowledged that ghost brides are annoying romantic rivals.Making her reluctant return to London after a ten-year absence, Tessa Preston cannot hide her dismay at her employer's friendliness with Jasper Steele, the man who chased her away. To make matters more annoying, he's haunted by a most insistent ghost bride.Determined to prove her indifference to the charming Jasper, Tessa realizes the entitled ghost demanding his attention may not be all she seems. Meanwhile, unaware of Tessa's enmity, Jasper is delighted to have a second chance at her affections, and will let nothing, not even her cold stares, dampen his enthusiasm.

It was a truth universally ignored, most principally by the dowager Dame Hartwell, that ghosts and gatherings did not mix. In this short story, the fashionable and eccentric dowager Dame Hartwell has lured the reclusive Miss Tessa Preston to attend her drawing room séance. If Dame Hartwell can't convince Miss Preston, her former protégé, to return as her medium-in-residence, she doesn't know how she will protect her son and his new fiancée from the brewing storm of malcontent spirits surrounding them.MISS PRESTON'S PREDICAMENT is a short story between novels. It is a standalone referencing characters and events from the cozy Victorian fantasy romance, HAUNTING MISS TRENTWOOD, the first in the Hesitant Mediums series.

It was a truth universally ignored that sons abhorred being sent to séances in search of a wife.In this short story (approx. 4,000 words) Jasper Steele has had enough of ghosts to last him a lifetime, so why is he attending a séance? Mostly to appease his mother, who worries about his head and his heart after his summer in the English countryside getting rejected by Mary Trentwood.Eloise Carterprice has never been one to let a good opportunity escape her, so it's only natural that her ghost appears during the latest séance hosted by her mother.Read this story for a fun, light read featuring gaslamp fantasy, Victorian comedy of manners, and beleaguered gentleman in search of love, peace, and quiet.This is a short story bridge between Haunting Miss Trentwood and A Spirited Engagement. It is a companion to "Miss Preston's Predicament."