What he didn't expect was the instant desire for the pretty widow or the need to play father to her boy, and it's damn hard to hide his interest in both.ĭodging threats to their lives. Now, needing a paying job, he stuck around a rich nob's property hoping to become a jack of all trades. After an injury put an end to his cavalry career, he's knocked about England searching for purpose. Captain Christopher Mowbray is down on his luck. Too bad anxiety continues to bedevil her and makes tranquility-and indifference-impossible.ĭistracted by forbidden desire. The last thing she wants is an attraction to the intriguing former soldier asking for work. Widowed Lady Elizabeth Dunston, daughter of the Earl of Hallewell, has lived a quiet life for years at her father's country estate, for it was her beloved husband's last request that she find peace.
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Blink and you’ll miss the numerical tattoo on her arm, visible briefly in one scene. Wearing a pencil skirt and gray bun - Jonathan describes her, affectionately, as looking like a Q-tip - Zimmerman is an emigree from Paris who came to America after the war, in which her husband and child were killed. It’s also the source of nightly ticktocking, though Florence can’t find anything in the crawl space. The house itself could be a replica of Stephen King’s, and its velour interior, designed by Jon Hutman and dressed by Ellen Brill, reps the film’s most distinctive ingredient, a mahogany-gold wonderland of seemingly limitless dimensions. Jonathan’s next-door neighbor and best friend, Florence Zimmerman (Blanchett), is introduced stepping out of a grandfather clock that seems to connect their two homes. Sporting a boxed beard and black kimono, Black leans into his regular persona, period be damned, begrudgingly telling a matronly neighbor (a memorable Colleen Camp) he’ll keep the noise down after midnight, even though “them’s me best jamming hours.” He’s a dream guardian, serving choc-chip cookies for dinner and insisting there’s no such thing as bedtime. Kitted out by Marlene Stewart in a tweed jacket, bow tie and aviator goggles, Lewis (Vaccaro) arrives in the fictional New Zebedee, Michigan, in 1955, to meet his uncle Jonathan (Black), who has assumed custody of the boy after the death of his parents in a car crash. She is married to her very own Prince Charming, and they are happily married and raising precocious twin boys in the Rocky Mountains. Lindzee graduated with a BS degree in history education from Utah Valley University. She believes in sigh-worthy kisses and happily ever afters, and loves expressing that through her writing. Like any true romantic, Lindzee loves chick flicks, ice cream, and chocolate. She writes fun and flirty romantic comedies, as well as heartfelt women’s fiction that makes perfect book club reads. LINDZEE ARMSTRONG is the USA Today bestselling and award-winning author of more than twenty books. Lindzee is represented by Lane Heymont of Join Lindzee's newsletter and get books for FREE!. Join Lindzee's newsletter and get books for FREE!. |