title: Phoebe & Earl: A True Story
author:  J. B. Srodes 
description: J.B. Srodes was born and raised in Huntington (Cabell County) WV. After graduation from Marshall University in 1961, he moved to Sarasota Florida. There he worked as a stock broker and a branch manager until retirement. Now he lives between San Marcos, La Laguna, Guatemala, Florida and West Virginia. Phoebe & Earl is his first novel.
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  Not every match is made at the marriage mart . . .
  
  After a disastrous, short-lived engagement and years of caring for her ailing
  grandmother, Phoebe Hallsmith is resigned to spinsterhood. But if she must be
  unmarried, far better to be of use than languishing at home, disappointing her
  parents. As an employee of the Everton Domestic Society of London, Phoebe
  accepts a position at the country home of an old friend and discovers an
  estate—and a lord of the manor—in a state of complete chaos.
  
  Losing himself in the bottle has done nothing to ease Markus Flammel’s grief
  over losing his wife. Not even his toddler daughter can bring him back from
  the brink. Now this fiery, strong-minded redhead has taken over his home,
  firing and hiring servants at will and arousing unexpected desire. As not one,
  but two suitors suddenly vie for Phoebe’s hand, can Markus move past loss and
  fight for a future with the woman who has transformed his world?
  
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