The River House

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In this charming novel about the search for love, home and family, New York Times bestselling author Carla Neggers takes readers on a journey to an irresistible town they'll want to return to over and over again.

Felicity MacGregor loves organising social events for others, but her own personal life is a different story. After a brief but failed attempt at a career as a financial analyst, she returned to Knights Bridge where she enjoys running a thriving partyplanning business.

Then Felicity's life gets a shakeup when her childhood friend Gabriel Flanagan returns unexpectedly to their tiny hometown. Now a highflying businessman, Gabe always vowed to get out of Knights Bridge, but he is back for the local entrepreneurial boot camp Felicity's been hired to organise. Together again, they'll finally have to face each other and their complicated past.

Gabe and Felicity soon realise their reunion is stirring up longburied emotions. While Gabe has big plans for his future, Felicity is discovering that hers doesn't depend on fate she must choose what's right for her. But if they can find a bridge between their diverging paths, they may just discover that their enduring connection is what matters most.

'Appealing protagonists, good neighbours, smalltown Christmas traditions, and Neggers's own recipes make for a fine romance.' Publishers Weekly on A Knights Bridge Christmas

Author Bio

New York Times bestselling author Carla Neggers is always plotting her next adventure, whether in life or for one of her books. Her fertile imagination and curious nature make her ready for anything. It is also these qualities that sparked her love of reading as a child and continue to drive her passion for storytelling today. With her trademark blend of action, suspense and down-to-earth, realistic characters caught up in extraordinary circumstances, her novels never fail to take her readers on an exciting journey. Carla began writing as a youngster, when she'd grab a pad and pen and climb a tree to spin her stories. Growing up in western Massachusetts, she is the third of seven children. Just before she was born, her Dutch immigrant father and Southern-born mother packed up the car with two kids and all their belongings and headed north to start a new life. They settled in an eighteenth-century carriage house on ninety acres and began a long process of renovation. After graduating as valedictorian of her high school class, she went on to major in journalism at Boston University, graduating magna cum laude. She enjoyed a brief stint as an arts and entertainment writer, then turned to writing fiction full-time and now has more than fifty books to her credit. Travel and research both play a large part in Carla's writing. She can often trace the germination of a plot to the exact moment of inspiration. It's part of the fun of being a writeryou never know what will spark an idea. For example, on a trip to the Netherlands some years ago, we did a tour of a canal-like waterway, she says. I kept thinkingwhat would happen if a dead body floated by What if it was an American It's the way my mind worksaround me, everyone else was admiring the quaint countryside. I was devising a murder. Once a plot is hatched, the real researching begins. Her novels have taken her atop the northeast's highest peaks, onto a shooting range with a police academy instructor and across the world as she scouts out locations and seeks the authenticity that imbues her novels. The author's greatest pleasure comes in those moments when she feels she's gotten the story just rightwhen it all comes together on the pages of her book, exactly the way she's envisioned the tale in her mind. Then, when readers connect with the story, her satisfaction is complete. Everything comes down to the finished book, says the author. When I hear from a reader that the story resonated, and that he or she had a great time reading it, I know I've done my job and done it well. When she's not working on her next book, Carla enjoys traveling, hiking and kayaking. She's set out to become a four-thousand-footer by climbing all forty-eight peaks over four-thousand feet in the New Hampshire White Mountains, and she's always planning the next tripand the next adventureeither of which just might inspire a new story. Carla lives in Vermont, where she and her husband have recently renovated their mountain house not far from picturesque Quechee Gorge.