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Jenna’s life is perfect . . . perfect chaos!
One lousy Monday, Jenna loses her gorgeous job, her even more gorgeous boyfriend, and her home. In an attempt to put aside her personal woes, Jenna goes to catalogue books for an elderly cousin, Kitty Everest, at her country mansion. Horrified to discover that Kitty may be forced to sell Holtby House, Jenna throws herself into a scheme to save it. But when an attempt is made on her life, Jenna finds herself in a race to save Holtby, Kitty – and herself.
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Harrod-Eagles's love of the English countryside shines through in this light contemporary's details of rural life, but the story doesn't hang together. Jenna Freemont survives "Lousy Monday" when she loses her job at a London magazine and returns home to find her lover with another woman. She regroups and winds up as assistant to Kitty, a distant cousin in Holtby. A widow, Kitty can't afford to keep her late husband's family estate, so she and Jenna must catalogue and sell its contents. Kitty's godson, Alexander, and his fianc e, Caroline, take an instant dislike to Jenna, believing she is there to take advantage of Kitty. When Jenna plots a way for Kitty to afford to keep the house, she meets resistance on several fronts and even suffers an attempt on her life. Incorporating pop culture references and a clutter of irrelevant details, Harrod-Eagles (Game Over) also stretches the reader's sense of a believable budding romance between Jenna and Alexander.
