Where Dreams Begin (2000) (edit title/settings)

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• Lady Holland "Holly" Taylor: Young widow, has a 4 year old daughter, believes she can't love anymore, believes she has no faults besides eating too many cakes, has three unmarried sisters and father is an Earl so she can keep her status
• Zachary "Zach" Bronson: Low born, prize fighter, rake, built an empire of wealth and power, needs a wife to run his household
• Rose Taylor: Holly's daughter, 4 years old, loves to paint and draw, collects buttons
• Lady Bellemont: Countess of Warwick, vivacious woman
• George Taylor: Holly's dead husband, died in 1827 from typhoid fever, golden brown hair, blue eyes, loved Holly and Rose, died at 24
• William Taylor: George's older brother, Viscount, tries to dissuade Holly from accepting Zachary's offer
• Thomas Taylor: George's youngest brother, blue eyes, amber streaked hair
• Olinda Taylor: Thomas's wife, tall, elegant blond
• Maude: Holly's servant, unfailing high spirits, gentle, late thirties
• Elizabeth "Lizzie" Bronson: Twenty-one years old, Zachary's younger sister, is expected to marry a peer
• Vardon Blake, the Earl of Ravenhill: Promised a dying George that he would marry Holly, aristocrat, childhood chum of George's
• Paula Bronson: Zachary's mother, sweet, makes friends with the servants, unable to tell servants what to do as she feels she was beneath many of them
• Jason Somers: Holly's cousin, architect, handsome, from a good family
• Mrs. Burney: Zachary's housekeeper

Quotes edit see section history

• ““You're my woman, and no man or God or ghost will ever take you from me.””

  Zachary Bronson

• “We're linked forever in this child, we made her together, Holly... such a natural, simple thing for two people to have a baby... but it almost defies my comprehension.”

  George Taylor

• “You, sir, are a moral abyss.”

  Lady Holly Taylor

• “I've finally realized that there is something worse than possibly losing you... and that is never having you at all.”

  Lady Holly Taylor

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• “My life,” he interrupted quietly. “You're my entire life. If anything ever happens to you, Holly, there is nothing left for me.”

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• “I'll follow you to the next life if I have to,” he whispered harshly in her ear. “You'll never be free of me. I'll chase you through heaven and hell and beyond.”

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• “Because children of dukes, marquesses and earls are able to prefix their names with ‘Lord’ or ‘Lady,’ but children of viscounts and barons are merely ‘Mr.’ or ‘Miss’.”

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• I suspect if someone were drowning in quicksand, you would extort all manner of promises before throwing him a rope.” He shrugged philosophically. “My sweet, that's the entire point of having the rope.”

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• “I've finally realized that there is something worse than possibly losing you…and that is never having you at all.”

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• “You're my woman, and no man or God or ghost will ever take you from me.”

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• “I'm certain you're already aware of the five titles of peerage: duke, marquess, earl, viscount and baron.”

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• unctuous just now,” she said. A smile tugged at the left side of his mouth. “I'm sure you would never be

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Warrington
• London, 1830: Chapter One
• England
• Devon

First Sentence edit see section history

Table of Contents edit see section history

Glossary edit see section history

• arriviste: Describe this term.
• Unctuous

Series & Lists edit see section history

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Lisa Kleypas (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
• Dewey: 813.54

Notes for Parents edit see section history

sexual content

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Romance › Authors, A-Z › ( K ) › Kleypas, Lisa
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary
• Books › Romance › Historical

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