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2000s: Welcome to Wychwood-on-Lea…
2000s: Welcome to Wychwood-on-Lea…
Anna Vere has escaped to the Cotswolds for Christmas to try to heal from her broken engagement and, far worse, her broken dreams. When her reserved room at a bed & breakfast is flooded, she takes up the offer of camping out in Willoughby Close, the converted stables of the nearby manor house… and is taken under the wing of sexy local carpenter Colin Heath.
What starts out as merely helping a neighbor in need turns into far more as Colin and Anna share a surprisingly intense and emotional connection, weaving their own Christmas magic as they spend the holiday together. But Anna has a secret she’s scared to reveal, something that could destroy the fragile bond they’ve just created, and Colin knows she’s only in England for a short time. Can these two sudden soul mates risk their hearts for a love that has yet to be tried and tested?
Wychwood-on-Lea is fictional but it more than brings to life the real Cotswolds such as the village with Wychwood in the title! All are on the map above.
It’s a lovely village – the lea is a small tributary off the Thames and runs at the bottom of the village past the manor.
As for the village itself –
“In between terraced cottages were a few odd, homely-looking shops -a garage, a fish and chis takeaway, a vet, a secondhand shop with a window full of dusty antiques and a marmalade cat reigning over them all, a library, a baker with trays of fresh-baked gingerbread in the window, and the post office shop that looked like the village’s only course of groceries”
Author/Guide: Kate Hewitt Destination: The Cotswolds Departure Time: 2000s
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