Jennifer Cody Epstein explores this challenge in her novel Wunderland (Crown, 2019). How did the Holocaust happen and, more importantly, why? However, the memory still haunts succeeding generations of people around the world. Only a dwindling group of eighty- and ninety-year-olds can remember Nazi Germany and most of them were children at the time. One could say she restores our faith in humanity.Wunderland by Jennifer Epstein: Nightmare and Awakening “Brenda Minton has done her usual excellent job of showing us the quieter, more decent side of life. Because Christmas-and his future-would be much merrier with Marissa as his bride. Alex can’t turn his back on the spunky city girl, and soon his priority becomes convincing her to stay. With his ranch in jeopardy, Alex can’t afford any distractions right now-until he sees a bedraggled runaway bride on the side of the road. But when her limo breaks down, neighboring rancher Alex Palermo comes to her rescue. Fleeing to Bluebonnet Springs and the ailing grandfather she’s never known seems like the perfect solution. The Rancher's Christmas Bride Brenda MintonĪ cowboy is about to get a holiday gift he never knew he wanted: a city girl already wrapped up for a wedding-from the author of Second Chance Rancher.Īfter being jilted at the altar, all Marissa Walker wants for Christmas is to escape her life.

Purilla has already fallen deeply in love with the handsome Earl – but how can she turn a marriage of convenience into one of true love? Show book She is beautiful, demure and intelligent – in fact everything he ever wanted in a wife – so he persuades her to save him from Louise by marrying him. He motivation is clear – although penniless at the time, he has since suddenly inherited the title and estates after his uncle’s death in a train crash.Fleeing Louise and London for the safety of the countryside he breaks his collarbone in a carriage accident and is knocked unconscious.When he awakens he finds he is being nursed by a lovely country girl called Purilla. Man about town and something of a “ladies’ man” the new Earl of Rockbrook has given little thought to a liaison at Windsor Castle in which one of the Queen’s Ladies-in-Waiting, Lady Louise appears in his bedroom – so he is appalled when he learns that Louise’s mother expects him to marry her.

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