Love in a Minor Key
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Last published Mon, Jun 28, 2021
This is a collaborative work with @Regencyromancegirl.
Sidney Parker is known for being a perfectionist and hard to please, but no-one can deny his musical brilliance. If things had been different, he would likely have been Musical Director of the London Symphony Orchestra by now, but life took him down a darker path. Widowed, jaded and lacking in inspiration, Sidney has all but resigned himself to his fate... until that is, he meets Miss Charlotte Heywood... Can our favourite couple overcome past hurts and difficulties and find true happiness with one another?
A Modern Sanditon AU fanfic full of love, loss and misunderstandings which, after a little angst, will ultimately end with a HEA.
This work is accompanied by a playlist called 'Minor Key Fic' which can be found here on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5AmWROaNmVuInvsuEHt3Hx?si=7dkibQ6uSg2soGjrDTJOxw
Illustrator of front cover: Diana Keddie
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