The Smitten Book Club

<p><strong>The century-old<em> Gentlewoman's Guide to Love and Courtship</em> is no ordinary book club choice. But for the little book club in Smitten Vermont it might be their best pick yet!</strong></p><p>The thick leathery tome Heather pulled out of the dusty cardboard box was definitely coming home with her. Not only was <em>The Gentlewoman's Guide to Love and Courtship</em> an appealing curiosity by virtue of its title; it was also written by Smitten Vermont native Pearl Chambers a local gentlewoman from three generations back.</p><p>Little did Heather know the repercussions this little curiosity would have on her and her friends' romantic exploits.</p><p>When Heather and her fellow book club members begin passing the book around their respective interpretations are unleashed on their respective love lives . . . for better or for worse. Is it a mystery? An idealist fantasy? An intimation of Jane Austen? As romantic love finds its way to each woman the <em>Guide</em> proves itself both surprisingly prescient and hilariously irrelevant.</p><p>What's more a handwritten inscription indicates that the arcane book might hold the only extant clues leading to buried gold--exactly what one of the members needs to keep her house. How could they not go treasure hunting?</p><p>In this remarkable collaborative novel besties <strong>Colleen Coble Kristin Billerbeck Denise Hunter </strong> and<strong> Diann Hunt </strong>tackle the tale of the <em>Gentlewoman's Guide</em> by writing for one book club member apiece. <em>Smitten Book Club</em> is a hopeful hilarious story of friendship and healing written by friends for friends.</p>