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Chair of Social Sciences and Professor of History at Berkeley City College

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Amy Clipston is the award-winning and best-selling author of the Kauffman Amish Bakery series

soft-spoken teacher at a private school in Manhattan

is a retired Emeritus Professor of Quantitative Psychology at the Georgia Institute of Technology

The Jewels of Halstead Manor Lotteries Chair of Social Sciences andShe can only stay as long as the invalid needs her so he makes it his business to need her forever. When a cryptic invitation brings Giulia Pepper to her uncle's remote estate in Devon, she arrives in dire need of a benefactor, only to discover that her uncle never sent her any invitation nor does he want her there. Forced into a corner, Giulia must contrive a way to convince him to allow her to remain, just long enough to figure out where to go next.