<p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>If you like Downton Abbey you'll enjoy Love of the Summerfields</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>1880 England: the lives and loves of manor and village intertwine. Earl and shopkeeper countess and clerk-all will be stunned and transformed by a secret that begs to be revealed.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>When the Weston family returns to Summerfield Manor at the close of the London social season both village and manor relax into their normal existence. But for four women turmoil awaits. Each must battle the restrictions of her position as her faith and character are tested.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>ADELAIDE WESTON the feisty and domineering dowager countess is thrust out of her carefully structured life of duty by the reappearance of her first love.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>RUTH WESTON the manor's reclusive guilt-ridden countess struggles to emerge from self-imposed exile to embrace her marriage her family and the duties of her position.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Ruth's loyal lady's maid MOLLY WALLACE juggles the demands of her job the needs of her own tumultuous family and a secret romance.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And LILA HAYWARD a shopkeeper's daughter finds herself in love with a viscount's son who's engaged to Ruth's spoiled daughter. Lila is sorely tested when she is obliged to act as liaison between the two putting her in constant contact with the man she loves but can never hope to win.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>None of these women expect a decades-old secret to unsettle the balance of her life-and the lives of everyone in Summerfield. Each will have a choice to make between her own happiness and a truth that will turn their carefully-ordered world upside down.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>BOOK ONE of the MANOR HOUSE SERIES. Continue the story with Book 2: Bride of the Summerfields and Book 3: Rise of the Summerfields.</span></p>