by Jean Stubbs
First published 1984
Ambrose Longe owns The Clarion, but his mother's old paper, The Northern Correspondent, remains his true dream. When wealthy William Howarth demands political favoritism in exchange for financial backing, Ambrose refuses. Howarth retaliates by launching The Lancashire Herald with editor Sam Pickering to crush The Clarion. Enter Naomi Blüm, a worldly woman who settles in Millbridge after years of hotel living with her late father. She wants a home without a husband and sees opportunity in Ambrose's struggling venture. Her investment revives The Northern Correspondent just as cholera ravages the town. Dr Jamie Standish battles the epidemic while Ambrose covers the political fallout. With help from his cousin Mary Vivian, Ambrose and Naomi create a women's section that boosts circulation. Their business partnership succeeds beyond expectations, but neither anticipates how their professional alliance will transform into something neither planned nor expected.
Genres: romance, american-fiction, historical-fiction, 19th-century
Vibes: emotional, intimate, suspenseful
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, found-family
Setting: Millbridge, The Clarion, The Northern Correspondent, The Lancashire Herald
Period: 1831-1851
374 pages · Hardcover · St Martins Pr