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A Rather Charming Invitation - C.A. Belmond (2010)
In the third novel in the Rather series, Penny and Jeremy are planning their wedding but are making really slow progress with the final plans. When Penny's young French cousin, Honorine, shows up on their London doorstep out of the blue, she informs them that her parents have invited them to their home in France for a small reception in celebration of their wedding. While in France, Penny's generous relations offer Penny and Jeremy the use of a beautiful wedding tapestry for the couple to be married in front of. The tapestry has perplexing but lovely images that Penny finds intriguing, since her background is in historical research. In the weeks leading up to the wedding, Penny and Jeremy have to make the difficult decision of where to have their wedding. Penny's relatives want the wedding to be in France, while Jeremy's family want it in England. When they finally have a breakthrough, they head to their villa in France to sell the idea to the family and in doing so need to bring the tapestry to the villa to showcase the full effect of their ideas. However, something goes awry and the tapestry goes missing. This leads Penny, Jeremy and Honorine on a chase to track down the tapestry and find out its true origins. What they find just may get them into hot water with a certain famous billionaire and they'll have to tread very carefully in order to get the tapestry back in one piece. Can Penny and Jeremy recover the beloved family heirloom in time? Or is its absence a bad omen, warning them to call off the wedding? Written in such an fascinating way, with characters that will both charm and entertain, it is a book that you don't want to miss. (AS)
In A Rather Charming Invitation, the third book in C.A. Belmond's Rather series, wedding bells are ringing for Penny and Jeremy but where will the wedding be? While heiress Penny's newly discovered French relatives insist that the wedding be held in the south of France, Jeremy's kin won't have it anywhere but England. Meanwhile, Penny, worried about what will happen after the wedding, acts as a "bridal anthropologist" seeking evidence that it is possible to "tie the knot" without eventually seeing their love fade. Then Penny's cousin offers her the loan of an ancient bridal tapestry with an intriguing history. Does it contain clues to eternal true love or is it merely an outdated relic from oppressive past traditions? Penny has barely begun to crack its perplexing imagery before a series of strange events unfold, threatening to derail the wedding.