![]() ![]() In "Nick of Time", which appeared in 1997, a London detective’s car crashes in a cemetery during a storm. Her assignment: to haunt her son-in-law until he falls in love with Daphne. ![]() Caught in the afterlife, she is given one chance to enter Heaven. Isadore, now a bona fide mother-in-law, collapses and dies. But between the ceremony and the reception, Iain walks off without a word. In "A Ghost of a Chance", written in 1996, the mother-in-law-to-be tries to stop daughter Daphne’s arranged marriage to Iain Ashingford, the Marquess Lindley. In "My Lucky Lady", published in the same year, Lord Campton is headed to sea, away from London’s smart set, when he discovers a scruffy waif hiding in his trunk she is trying to escape an arranged marriage. ![]() Before long, however, Olivia’s hidden desires surprise her. ![]() The reluctant lover in Claybourne’s first novel, "The Devil's Darling", is an English earl who flees to the country to avoid London’s marriage-minded females once there, he falls for Olivia, whose only interest is in using his connections to procure a much-needed doctor for the village. Most of Casey Claybourne’s romance novels feature reluctant lovers, the English countryside, and ghosts. Casey Claybourne published her first novel in 1993. ![]()
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