Benchmark - Jon Beattiey

There's a golden opportunity awaiting June, Andrew's eldest daughter from her first marriage. She's taking her stepmother's place as Interior Design Consultant because Roberta is unexpectedly pregnant and suffering. How she manages to restore an Irish Planter's house with a romantic past seals her future as a young divorcee....Other events alter the home Manor's equilibrium, a blossoming romance between Hazel and Peter, a sad occasion as old age takes its toll, and the expansion of Andrew and Roberta's business. When everyone is least expecting it, catastrophe strikes and their world will never be the same....Jon Beattiey's final instalment in his successful and gripping Manor series rounds off the saga and will appeal to fans of the Manor series and fiction by Maeve Binchy and Erica James.