Heart Appearances by Pamela Griffin is her f/m cross-continental historical romance novel set in the early 20th century, starring a formerly-delinquent heroine who ends up assisting at a friend's husband's reform institution for wayward boys and finds herself intriguing the schoolmaster, free courtesy of Christian publisher Barbour as #560 in their Truly Yours Digital Editions line reprinting their old Heartsong Presents series.
Currently free @
B&N (also
UK),
Amazon (available to Canadians & in the
UK),
Kobo (not available to Canadians), and
ChristianBook (DRM-free ePub available to selected countries). May also be free at iTunes and or Google Play for the US, where Barbour freebies are sometimes said to also show up.
Description
Darcy Evans has spent much of her life scrounging on the streets of London. When she is dismissed from a girls' reformatory, she finds herself traveling to America at the invitation of an old friend. In the states, Darcy's uncouth mannerisms single her out for ridicule as she tries to fit into Lyon's Refuge - a home for delinquent boys, run by her friend's husband.
Schoolmaster Brent Thomas is rigid and refined... and more than a little unnerved at the newest addition to Lyon's Refuge. When he is commissioned to teach this wild and outspoken beauty the subtleties of grammar, language, and etiquette, he finds to his surprise that he might have a thing or two to learn himself.