Review: Astor Place Vintage by Stephanie Lehmann

New York City has always been known for its diversity and innovation. It’s a city in a perpetual state of movement and change.

In a little shop in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, vintage clothing store owner, Amanda, finds her life in utter chaos.

She is about to turn thirty nine, no children and no husband….in fact she is actually having a long standing affair with a married man.

Not to mention she is on the brink of financial ruin. But rather than do anything about her sorry state, she is more or less ignoring it all together.

Amanda gets a call from an older woman who is dying of cancer and would like to sell some clothes on consignment. When Amanda arrives at the she finds some great merchandise to take back to her store, tons of clothes from a variety of modern decades but what she doesn’t bargain for is an Edwardian era trunk full of delicate antique clothing.

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Giveaway: The Lemon Orchard by Luanne Rice

If you are looking for a sweeping novel to carry you away this summer, than this is the novel for you! Not 100% sure about the novel yet? Simply check out an except from the novel in the guest post!

If that doesn’t entice you then check out my review! This novel is a refreshing tale or love, loss, self discovery, and the power of compassion and friendship!

Thanks to the publisher, I am thrilled to be able to offer a copy of The Lemon Orchard and a tote bag for your enjoyment!

Giveaway runs 7/1/13 to 7/8/13

Winners will be announced 7/9/13.

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Review: The Lemon Orchard by Luanne Rice

Sometimes people come into your life and show you exactly what you have been missing.

These people may only be in your life for a short time or they might stay forever but they are meant to shape you, change you and guide you in directions that you might never have done without them.

These special people are meant to help you through difficult times, and often bring joy where there was once only sadness.

Julia Hughes has lived through an unimaginable tragedy, the death of her only child and husband. For five years she has been reliving the event over and over again, she has becoming listless and depressed.

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Guest Post: The Lemon Orchard by Luanne Rice

After reading and reviewing this stunning new novel just in time for summer, the author Luanne Rice was able to provide us with a sneak peak from The Lemon Orchard!

If you haven’t read this book yet, it’s a great one to read on those balmy summer nights on your patio with a glass of soothing lemon aide!

Be sure to enter the giveaway for a chance to win a copy of The Lemon Orchard!

Here is an excerpt from The Lemon Orchard…

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Review: And Only to Deceive (Lady Emily #1) by Tasha Alexander

Lady Emily Ashford is not in love with her new husband, the Viscount Philip Ashford. In fact she hardly knows him. So when she receives word that her husband died on safari in Africa, she can hardly morn a man she barely knows.

Emily married Philip to escape the constraints of her family and hoped that marriage would provide that. Now that she is a widow, she finds she has even more freedom than she did as a wife.

All of London society can’t stop singing the praises of Lord Ashford to Emily which makes her uncomfortable, but in an effort to at least try and morn the stranger she married, Emily listens to their stories.

She soon discovers that Philip was in fact wildly interesting and very much in love with her. Not only did Philip love to hunt on the “Dark Continent”, he was a romantic at heart with a love for Emily she has no idea existed; he also was a lover and collector of ancient antiquities and Greek literature.

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