After her family lost their piano shop to a con man in London, they’re trying to start fresh in a new town. Sophie Roseingrave hates nothing more than a swindler. And in the contest between secret love and public glory, there can only be one winner. But the day of the poultry show is fast approaching, and everyone’s drawing up battle lines.
Harriet’s frozen heart is thawed by Lydia’s gentleness, and lonely Lydia blossoms under Harriet’s keen regard. She and her friends have inherited a manor on the village outskirts, and Harriet is looking forward to a quiet holiday far from the anguish of the battlefield.īut a dispute over a flock of loose chickens - a rare local breed, which Lydia thinks could be champions and Harriet thinks could be delicious - draws Harriet into the competition under Lydia’s grudging guidance. Harriet Boyne is a soldier’s widow reeling from the worst years of her life. On that day she brushes her birds, sharpens her tongue, and engages in the closest thing the village knows to war. Lydia Wraxhall is on her best behavior every day of the year-except one: the annual Bickerton Christmas Poultry Show.
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