From Book 1:Welcome to Pettett & Mayfield, a once-grand central London department store now fallen on harder times, despite the eccentric owner’s schemes to attract customers. But from the basement kitchenware department through to the top floor management offices, love and faith can still find a home.
You never forget your first love… especially if they broke your heart!
With her eye for design and her cut-glass accent, no-one would guess Beth Forrest’s poorer background. It’s all throw pillows, china patterns, and upper class brides in the Wedding Registry at Pettett & Mayfield. So it’s not quite her dream job? Each bride she helps to select beautiful and oh-so-expensive items for their gift list brings her one step closer to buying a little home of her own, and financing the education she longs for.
When physics professor James Tetherton-Hart, brilliant in his research lab but awkward and disorganised in everyday life, comes to the store in desperate need of both a gift and a partner for a wedding that evening and recognises her, all her careful plans and meticulous checklists are turned upside down.
Now her first love is back, determined to make her his partner for life, not just the evening. But unless Beth can let go of the mistaken beliefs that separated them in the past, and appreciate the depth and breadth of God’s love for us all, her only gift from the wedding will be another heartbreak.
Clean, sweet, and wholesome Christian inspirational romance to warm your heart from a USA Today bestselling author!
You never forget your first love… especially if they broke your heart!
With her eye for design and her cut-glass accent, no-one would guess Beth Forrest’s poorer background. It’s all throw pillows, china patterns, and upper class brides in the Wedding Registry at Pettett & Mayfield. So it’s not quite her dream job? Each bride she helps to select beautiful and oh-so-expensive items for their gift list brings her one step closer to buying a little home of her own, and financing the education she longs for.
When physics professor James Tetherton-Hart, brilliant in his research lab but awkward and disorganised in everyday life, comes to the store in desperate need of both a gift and a partner for a wedding that evening and recognises her, all her careful plans and meticulous checklists are turned upside down.
Now her first love is back, determined to make her his partner for life, not just the evening. But unless Beth can let go of the mistaken beliefs that separated them in the past, and appreciate the depth and breadth of God’s love for us all, her only gift from the wedding will be another heartbreak.
Clean, sweet, and wholesome Christian inspirational romance to warm your heart from a USA Today bestselling author!
All Cara Talbot wants for Christmas is for it to be over. The workaholic accountant has good reason to hate Christmas, along with charmers like actor Nick Gallagher, playing celebrity Santa at the failing London department store she has the thankless job of managing.
She’s determined to save her staff’s jobs, Hollywood golden boy Nick just wants to live up to his Mr Unattached reputation and enjoy life. They couldn’t be more opposite. But if accepting Nick’s dare – dates showing her the magic of a London Christmas – can raise enough publicity to keep the store open, she’ll do it. Even if she risks falling in love with him in the process
Can this surprising Santa allow love to deepen his untested faith and learn to commit, while helping Ms Scrooge believe in Christmas, and in God, once more?
Maggie Golding, the unconventional and artistic 50-something designing the Christmas window displays at Pettett & Mayfields London department store, never expected to fall in love with Edgar Pettett, staid and sensible heir to the business. They couldn’t be more different. But he’s kind, sweet, a delight to be with, and willing to accept her as she is.
Even with her rainbow-coloured hair, and her coat to match.
Ed would far rather be wearing Wellingtons and jeans while caring for the dairy cattle on his farm than straitjacketed into a suit and tie while managing the department store his grandfather founded. But breaking free of his autocratic mother’s control is an achievement that’s so far eluded him. When he meets Maggie, he’s determined to succeed. She’s unlike any woman he’s ever met, yet he knows she’s the wife for him.
Between her shaky faith, their huge differences, and his mother’s disapproval, how will they possibly work things out?
Clean, sweet, and wholesome Christian inspirational romance to warm your heart, from a USA Today bestselling author!
When Tiffany Gallagher flies to London to spend the holidays with her family, volunteering at a homeless shelter on Christmas Day isn’t part of her plan. Nor is having to travel to Edinburgh with Mac, the wounded and cynical Scottish photojournalist also volunteering at the shelter, to get the Scottish New Year’s Eve she’d dreamed of, a real Hogmanay.
Returning to London determined to prove to her family and to herself that she’s good at something other than shopping, she sets up an ambitious back-to-work partnership between the shelter and Pettett & Mayfield’s department store. But her scheme means she and Mac are thrown together. When he turns the camera on her to help her get a modelling job, she begins to see past his wounds and discovers a man she could easily fall in love with.
Neither is looking for love, but love finds them anyway, though it can’t last when their plans will take them in different directions. Can they learn in time that no matter what they’ve planned, God’s loving purpose for their lives can’t be denied?
Zoe’s determined to prove that romance is an illusion and love based on it doesn’t last. Though when she meets Gabe Ross, there to fulfil his mother’s dying wish by placing a lovelock on a bridge for her and his father, even she finds it hard to resist the most romantic city in the world on the most romantic day of the year.
An impulsive challenge to try a psychological experiment isn’t part of her research plan. Especially when it feels like more, much more, for both of them.
Zoe tells herself their one wonderful day together proves nothing, only gives more evidence her theory is right. But on her return to London, she discovers she needs Gabe’s help to learn the biggest lesson of all, that love does last.
Especially God’s love…
Clean, sweet, and wholesome Christian inspirational romance to warm your heart, from a USA Today bestselling author! And now get the first four Love in Store books in the What Happens in London #1 boxed set!
When store department manager David Warwick, her secret crush, unexpectedly invites shy florist Ellie Ashton to represent the store at a glittering London ball, she feels more the ugly step-sister than princess material. No make-up, hair that was last styled for her high school prom, and not a single dress in her wardrobe, let alone a ballgown. Only a complete makeover can help her to look and feel the part.
Attending the ball with the confidence the makeover and boosted faith gives her is a dream come true. But will she win the heart of the man she loves, or let doubt and fear send her running away at midnight?
Clean, sweet, and wholesome Christian inspirational romance to warm your heart from a USA Today bestselling author!
When their best friends’ summer wedding in London pushes proud judgmental medical missionary Matthew Coalbrooke and bubbly plus sized shoe-aholic kitchenware saleswoman Anita Kiernan together, it’s dislike at first sight. Turning up at the airport with a toddler in tow doesn’t exactly help matters. The only thing they can both agree on is that the bride and groom’s matchmaking attempts are bound to fail.
Neither are looking for love. He’s determined to return to his African mission hospital as soon as he can, where her glamorous presence would be nothing but a nuisance. She’s determined to care for her niece while her sister is ill, and besides, she has a shoe collection to maintain. An obnoxious, arrogant doctor is the last man she needs.
But by the end of the summer, they’ll both discover God has a bigger plan for them than they can possibly imagine!
Clean, sweet, and wholesome Christian inspirational romance to warm your heart, from a USA Today bestselling author! And now get the first four Love in Store books in the What Happens in London #1 boxed set!
About Autumn Macarthur
Autumn Macarthur is a USA Today bestselling author of Christian inspirational romance. Originally from Australia, she now lives near London with her very English husband plus their spoiled guinea pigs and rescue cats, after a one-year working holiday turned into over twenty years!
She loves writing deeply emotional stories to make you smile and remind you how big and wide and deep God’s love and forgiveness can be. She’s thankful to be blessed with good friends and a patient husband. Most of all, she’s eternally grateful for God’s great love and mercy.
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I LOVE this series! I haven’t yet read all of the books, but I have them!
I love this series, too!
Thank you for sharing the series, Paula. And thank you, trudy, dear friend!
I love this series!