Category Archives: Kent, Lynnette

Lynette Kent. Smoky Mountain Home. Toronto: Harlequin, 2008.

Ruth Ann Blakely has invested her whole life in the Hawkridge School.  She grew up helping her father care for the horses at the school; now Ruth Ann is the equestrian trainer and instructor.  The stable that she works in has stood for a hundred years; it’s functional and it has history and charm. So why are the school’s trustees so gung-ho about building a new stable?  Ruth Ann wants no part of this change, and Jonah Granger, the slick architect who’s come down from New York with his design for the new structure, just sets her blood to boiling.  He’s arrogant, clueless about what makes a good stable, and a bad parent to boot!  But wait, maybe things are not what they seem.  As Ruth Ann gets to know Jonah’s stepdaughter, Darcy (a new student at the school), and Jonah spends time at the barn, she sees his affection for Darcy. But Jonah has ideas about lots of things and he pushes Ruth Ann out of her comfort zone–professionally and personally.

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Lynnette Kent. A Holiday to Remember. Toronto: Harlequin, 2009.

Chris Hammond returns to Ridgeville, North Carolina to spend time with his grandfather who is dying.  He hasn’t been back to Ridgeville in twelve years, not since a crash on the mountains took the life of the girl he loved, Juliet Radcliffe.  But if Juliet died, who is the woman he saw today in the village–a beautiful woman who looks just as Juliet would have looked if she were still alive.  Intent on learning more about the Juliet-double, Chris rides his motorcycle to Hawkridge School, where the woman, Jayne Thomas, is the headmistress.  But it’s December in the mountains, and it’s snowing–not the time to be on a chopper. Chris spins out at the gates of Hawkridge, and soon Chris is snowed in with Jayne and seven troubled teenage girls. Chris proves handy at helping everyone manage without electrical power and heat, and he charms the girls with the story of his love for Juliet. Will his story also awaken something in Jane?

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Lynnette Kent. Smoky Mountain Reunion. Toronto: Harlequin, 2008.

Twelve years ago, when Shannon Reed was a student at the Hawkridge School, she fell in love with first-year teacher Mason Reed. Now an Ivy League-educated mathematician, she returns to the school as a teacher and sparks fly between Shannon and her first love, who is now a lonely single father. This book is part of the Harlequin State of Parenthood series.

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