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Bridges

by Linda Griffin

GENRE: 20th Century Historical Romance

BLURB:

In 1963, Neil Vincent, a middle-aged World War II veteran and “Christian atheist,” is working at Westfield Court as a chauffeur. He spends most of his spare time reading. Mary Claire DeWinter is a young, blind Catholic college student and reluctant heiress. To secure her inheritance, she has to marry within a year, and her aunt is pressuring her to marry a rich man who teased and bullied her when she was a child. Neil and Mary Claire shouldn’t even be friends, but the gulf between them is bridged by a shared love of books. Can they cross the bridge to more?

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Excerpt:

“To my beloved granddaughter, Miss Mary Claire St. James DeWinter, my sole surviving grandchild,”—as if poor, disowned Phillip no longer existed—“the house at Westfield Court and all my remaining possessions and assets—” Edna St. James sat very straight in her chair and glared balefully at her niece, and several of the others gasped, but Mr. Prentice was not finished. “Providing only that she fulfill two necessary stipulations. Firstly, that she permit my daughter-in-law, Mrs. Edna Carrington St. James, widow of my beloved son Marcus, to remain in residence at Westfield Court for as long as she lives, and Secondly, that she, as a young woman in need of protection and guidance, marry within one year of my death and remain married. If she fails to marry within the stipulated time or is divorced or widowed and fails to remarry within a year, Westfield Court and the entire estate is to be bequeathed to the State of Massachusetts, for whatever purposes it may deem fit.”

Everyone stared at Mary Claire. She was so white that her scars were more visible in contrast, and Neil half rose from his chair in case she was about to faint.

“Is that even legal?” Mrs. St. James demanded.

“Yes, ma’am,” said Mr. Prentice. “I believe it is.”

“After all the years I spent managing this house, not to mention his precious Marcus, he’s left me at the mercy of this little—” She rose to her feet, bristling with injured dignity, and stalked out of the room.

My Review:

Mary Claire DeWinter is a blind Catholic college student who has inherited a lot of money that she is reluctant to accept at first but then of course she does. But there is one little problem. Mary Claire has to marry within a year or she will lose the money.

But never fear Mary Claire’s Aunt is on the lookout for a man for her to marry. Mary Claire is not ready to marry. She is definitely not ready to marry the man her Aunt has picked out for her. A man that she went to school with bullied her the whole time they were in school.

Neil Vincent, a chauffeur at Westfield Court. Neil likes to read books when he is not working. Neil and Mary Claire become fast friends after she arrived at Westfield Court. Mary Claire and Neil spend a lot of time together on the estate and off when he is driving her around. Mary Claire even gets him to ride a horse after he states that he is afraid.

Neil tries to get Mary Claire to stand up against her Aunt. The question is will she? Will Mary Claire stand up to her Aunt or will she marry the man she has chosen for her? The answers can be found in the pages of Bridges.

Bridges is a very sweet romantic book about two people whose lives are separated by class and age. Can they overcome either one or the other? Will they let their lives be ruled by others?

Do I recommend Bridges? Oh, yeah, you bet I do to all those romantics out there. The time has come for you to one-click your copy of Bridges today for a sweet, warm-hearted, romantic adventure!

  

AUTHOR Bio and Links:

Author Bio: Linda Griffin is a native of San Diego and has a BA in English from San Diego State University and an MLS from UCLA. As soon as learned to read, she knew she wanted to be a “book maker” and wrote her first story at the age of six. She retired from a position as fiction librarian for the San Diego Public Library to spend more time on her writing. Her stories have been published in numerous journals, including Eclectica, Thema, The Binnacle, Orbis, and mostly recently The Adirondack Review. Bridges is her fifth novel published by the Wild Rose Press, following Seventeen Days (2018), The Rebound Effect (2019, Guilty Knowledge (2020), and Love, Death, and the Art of Cooking (2021).

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