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When a long‑serving vicar with 40 years of duty finally decides to retire, he realizes his last task must involve mending the marriages that have troubled him for decades. Traveling to the homes of three couples, he debates the state of love and duty, acting as a celestial matchmaker. In the first household, the wife of a scholarly man—a reverend, perhaps—has become the dutiful but unfulfilled spouse; in the second, a free‑spirited woman secretly yearns for adventure and a dashing rogue; and in the third, the husband himself must confront his own desires and choices.
First publish date: 2002
Genre: Romance/Historical Romance
Authors: Debbie Raleigh
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