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A magnificent novel that vividly evokes the atmosphere of a seventeenth century English country estate, and the seething intrigue of Rembrandt’s Amsterdam where the population is in the grip of a fever of tulip trading.It is the Summer of 1636. In England botanist John Nightingale hides from his dangerous past at Hawkridge House, deep in the tranquillity of the countryside.In Holland, the population is gripped by a fever of speculation. Fortunes are gambled on the commodity markets, trading in spices, grain and even rare tulips.Blackmailed into leaving Hawkridge to join an elaborate money-making scheme in Amsterdam, a city of frenzied greed and luxury, haunted by the ever-nearer demons of his past, and falling in love with two very different women, John Nightingale must learn quickly the ways of the world.

An old crush returns! Kelly McNeil thought finding refuge from her ex-husband at her friend Sabrina’s house was her best option – until Sabrina’s twin Matt answered the door. Kelly’d had a huge, unrequited crush on him as a teenager! Yet as adults, he’d never given her a second look.Matt had never mustered up the courage to ask Kelly out and now fate has given him a second chance. But Kelly is afraid to risk her independence and her children with a man who could only hurt them again. He’ll have to prove that he’s the Mr Right she can truly depend on. Forever.