Note: 1985 is the Original, unedited version
Fresh from her triumphs in Paris society, Whitney Stone returns to England determined to win the heart of her childhood love. However, in order to save himself from ruin, her father has come to an arrangement with the arrogant Duke of Claymore, and Whitney is the price.
Characters from the Westmoreland Dynasty Saga universe appear across the novels. From this era, Whitney, Clayton, and Stephen appear in Until You, with Clayton and Stephen's ancestor, Royce Westmoreland, as the main character in A Kingdom of Dreams.
If you'd like to read in order:
A Kingdom of Dreams (Westmoreland, #1)
Once and Always (Sequels, #1)
Something Wonderful (Sequels, #2)
Almost Heaven (Sequels, #3)
Whitney, My Love (Westmoreland, #2)
Until You (Westmoreland, #3)
Miracles (Westmoreland, #3.5)
The following Contain "Miracles" (Westmoreland, #3.5):
Simple Gifts: Just Curious / Miracles / Change of Heart / Double Exposure (Westmoreland, #3.5)
A Holiday of Love (Westmoreland, #3.5)
**Main Characters**
Whitney Stone
Clayton Westmoreland, Duke of Claymore
Paul Sevarin, Whitney's girlhood crush
Nicolas DuVille, Whitney's friend and suitor
Martin Stone, father of Whitney
Anne Gilbert, Whitney's aunt
Edward Gilbert, Whitney's uncle
Emily Williams, Whitney's cousin
Elizabeth Ashton, Whitney's childhood acquaintance and adulthood friend
Peter Redfern, Elizabeth's husband
Stephen Westmoreland, brother of Clayton (main character in Until You)
Book Details
Format
hardcover
ISBN-10
0671032976
ISBN-13
9780671032975
Publication Date
Aug 1999
Item Weight
1.00 pounds
Length
10.00 inch
Width
6.00 inch
Height
1.00 inch
First Sentence
As their elegant travelling chaise rocked and swayed along the rutted country road, Lady Anne Gilbert leaned her cheek against her husband's shoulder and heaved a long, impatient sigh.
Judith Spaeth was born in May 10, 1944 in San Luis Obispo, California, USA, and grew up all over the country, the oldest of three children of an appliance-store franchiser and a housewife. Before majored in Business at Northwestern University, Judy married with a dentist from St. Louis, Missouri, and they had two children, a daugther, Whitney (b. 1967), and a son, Clay (1969). But the marriage didn't work out, and at 25, she became a divorced mother to two.
She worked as comptroller of a major trucking company and was the first female executive producer at a CBS radio station. In 1974, while working as an assistant director on a TV-commercial film crew in St. Louis, she met an advertising director at General Motors, Michael McNaught, a divorced father of five. The pair married later that year and moved with her children to a Detroit suburb. Judy devoted herself to homemaking and slowly went little crazy. She started to read in her spare time, and she bought by accident her first romance: "The Flame and the Flower" by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss, and she loved it. With her husband encouragement, who buying her a new typewriter, she decided to try writing a novel herself in 1978. She wrote her first manuscript, "Whitney, My Love", a historical novel with the names of her childrens as protagonist, but she cannot found a publisher. She decided wrotre a contemporary romance, "Tender Triumph" and she sold in January 1982, the next month her sister Debbie died of an allergic reaction to medication. In June 19, 1983, her husband Mike, a hunter, was killed in an acciden while cleaning his guns, he died in her arms. The next day, the cover art for "Tender Triumph" came in the mail, but she had lost the interesting in write.
She and her children moved to Dallas, Texas, close to friends. Her books "Double Standards" and "Whitney, My Love" had been published, and after two years lost to mourning, she began writing again. She remarried a third time with Don Smith, a engineer and professional golfer, and moved to Friendswood, but the marriage ended friendly after three years in May 1993.
Judy lives in a white-columned waterfront mansion near Galveston, Texas. Her children have grown up, her daugther was now a teacher, and her son an accounts manager.
