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"Old Love's Domain" follows Laura, who, after enduring a series of personal losses, finds solace working as the custodian of Melloney Park—a Jacobean house with an Edwardian past. The site’s storied past and the presence of its former inhabitants offer her comfort, yet her fragile equilibrium is challenged by the new job’s young friend, Ian Vestry, and a marriage proposal from Roger Malmesbury, whose offer seems rooted in friendship and shared interest in the house. As Laura grapples with her dual identity—one deeply entrenched in reverie, the other confronting reality—she must decide whether the promise of marriage can sustain her fragile emotional equilibrium.
First publish date: 1982
Genre: Romance/Contemporary Romance
Authors: Iris Bromige
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