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One Sweet Moment

Author(s): Maggie Craig

Location(s): Edinburgh

Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Romance

Era(s): 1820s

A tale of young love and old Edinburgh. Kate works in an oyster cellar in the Old Town and dreams of escape with her young brother Andrew from their grasping and predatory aunt and uncle. Richard Hope is a wealthy young medical student. Against all the odds, love blossoms. One Sweet Moment is set against the pageantry of George IV’s visit to Edinburgh in 1822 and the heart-stopping drama of the Great Fire of Edinburgh of 1824.

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