Four Weddings and a Sixpence: An Anthology

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Beloved authors Julia Quinn, Elizabeth Boyle, Laura Lee Guhrke, and Stefanie Sloane deliver the stories of four friends from Madame Rochambeauxs Gentle School for Girls who find an old sixpence in their bedchamber and decide that it will be the lucky coin for each of their weddings...

Something Old
Julia Quinns prologue introduces her heroine Beatrice Heywood and the premise for Four Weddings and a Sixpence.

Something New

In Stefanie Sloanes unforgettable story, anever-vigilant guardian decrees that Anne Brabourne must marry by her twenty-first birthday. But love finds her in the most unexpected of ways.

Something Borrowed
Elizabeth Boyle tells the tale of Cordelia Padley, who has invented a betrothed to keep her family from pestering her to wed. Now shell need to borrow one to convince them shes found her true love.

Something Blue
In Laura Lee Guhrkes story, unlucky Lady Elinor Daventry has her sixpence stolen from her and must convince the rake who pilfered the coin to return it in time for her own wedding.

... and a Sixpence in Her Shoe
Julia Quinn finishes with the story of Beatrice Heywood, who never believed that the sixpence was anything but a tarnished old coinuntil it led all of her friends to true love. But her faith in the coin is tested when it keeps sending her to the wrong man!

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"Each love story in this superbly crafted anthology is expertly imbued with the distinctive literary DNA of its creator, and the end result is a wonderfully witty, sweep-you- off-your-feet romantic experience for long-time fans as well as readers new to these marvelously gifted writers." -- Booklist (starred review)

Author Bio

Julia Quinn started writing her first book one month after finishing college and has been tapping away at her keyboard ever since. The New York Times bestselling author of sixteen novels for Avon Books, she is a graduate of Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges and lives with her family in the Pacific Northwest.