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Love on Assignment

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The chance to break the big story is all Charlotte needs to secure her future. But when the truth comes outùit may cost her the love of her life.

Newport, Rhode Island, in 1900ùa glamorous resort town where the rich and famous go to see and be seen.

Charlotte Hale isn't part of that world. She's a working girl, a secretary for a local newspaper, who dreams of becoming a real reporter. When her boss offers her an assignment, she jumps at the opportunity. She'll go undercover as a governess to investigate a scandal about her new employer, Daniel Wilmont, a young widowed professor of religion who writes a controversial column in a rival newspaper.

Charlotte's qualms about misrepresenting herself to Daniel soon morph into a deeper quandary. How can she get the goods on a man who turns out to be so honorable? How can she plot the downfall of a family that has inspired her to rediscover her faith? And how can she protect the man she now loves from a scheme she's been part of since the beginning?

A fascinating tale of love and faith in the Gilded Age . . . from the author of Love on a Dime.

"James uses carefully described settings and characters . . . to dramatically contrast life in the Gilded Age in Newport, Rhode Island, between the working class and the wealthy." ùBooklist

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    • Library Journal

      February 15, 2011

      Rhode Island newspaper reporter Charlotte Hale accepts an undercover assignment during the summer of 1900 to work as a temporary governess to Daniel Wilmont's children. She has been instructed to find dirt on the rival columnist, who's outspoken in his Christian faith. But over time Charlotte discovers Daniel is not as she has been told, and she sets about clearing his name. VERDICT James's second series historical (after Love on a Dime) is a tired tale. There is nothing new here to recommend it despite the nice enough story and the likable characters.

      Copyright 2011 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

    • Booklist

      November 15, 2010
      In James second Christian historical romance set at Summerhill, Charlotte Hale, 22, supports her paralyzed younger sister and their elderly arthritic aunt. When her irascible boss offers her a special assignment, she eagerly accepts, even though she must sink her scruples to spy on Daniel Wilmont as live-in governess to his two children. Daniel is a well-respected biblical scholar at the local Christian college, but he also writes columns urging social reform, and many local industrialists want him silenced. When Daniel proves himself above reproach and Charlotte finds herself in love, she must weigh her growing faith and persistent conscience against the lure of her ambition and her familys need for money. In spite of historical inaccuracies and jarringly modern attitudes, James uses carefully described settings and characters and an entertaining if improbable plot to dramatically contrast life in the Gilded Age in Newport, Rhode Island, between the working class and the wealthy.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2010, American Library Association.)

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