Appointment in Bath

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A chance meeting between the sheltered daughter and the forward-thinking son of rival Victorian families sparks a forbidden romance in <em>USA Today</em> bestselling author Mimi Matthews's fourth book in her acclaimed Somerset Stories series.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Shy and stammering Meg Burton-Smythe has spent the whole of her life living on the fringes of local society. She's more comfortable with her daydreams than she is with people. But when a dashing golden-haired hero rides to her rescue one morning she dares to hope that her dreams might finally come true. There's only one problem: her handsome rescuer is the son of her father's sworn enemy.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Ivo Beresford doesn't believe in clinging to the past. Freshly returned from a lengthy grand tour he's looking to the future eager to spearhead the building of a new railway extension in Somersetshire. But an unexpected encounter with Meg Burton-Smythe the isolated only daughter of his parents' oldest foe sets the past and the future colliding.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Resolved to put ancient grudges to rest-at least where innocent young ladies are concerned-Ivo encourages lonely Meg to embark on a secret friendship. After all what harm can a friendship do? It isn't as though there's any danger of the two of them falling in love...</span></p>