Budding Romance
Lara Kinsey
Nicolette & Dorothea #1
A buttoned-up English headmistress on the French Riviera loses her heart to a charming lady gardener.
Description
Budding romance between a sweet-talking gardener and a bluestocking headmistress blooms to full flower in this steamy lesbian historical romance.On the cusp of the 20th century, France is where libertines indulge poetic desires. Dorothea has fled the structure of dreary old England for the Côte d'Azur. She’s opening a school for elegant young ladies, but it’s a disheveled lady gardener who has caught her eye. Madame Laurent works with her hands, but it’s her words than cultivate Dorothea’s fallow heart.
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