Love in a Small Village

<p>Clara Garden is thirty-five and single with no escape in sight. Just jilted by her fiancé who runs off to Las Vegas to marry his receptionist she’s not sure where to turn—until a birthday gift from her mother gives Clara an opportunity to escape from Vancouver Island.</p><p>She travels to England for a tranquil summer at Meadow Vale a farm house deep in the Warwickshire countryside. Determined to put her failed relationship behind her Clara anticipates history culture custard-covered desserts and possibly romance as she embarks on her first foreign trip. It should be easy: stay in a beautiful house walk a dog every day and feed the ponies. </p><p>Instead she finds herself dealing with vaguely disturbing neighbors a medically fragile Chihuahua a pregnant pony on the brink of labor and the fact that the previous three house sitters have met untimely deaths. Drawn into a family feud and local events such as the village fete and a children’s riding competition Clara becomes known to local police and media before the summer’s end. Even so she finds there is life after a broken engagement.</p>