A School for Brides

Books by

PATRICE KINDL

Owl in Love

The Woman in the Wall

Goose Chase

Lost in the Labyrinth

Keeping the Castle

A School for Brides

VIKING

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First published in the United States of America by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, 2015

Copyright © 2015 by Patrice Kindl

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Kindl, Patrice.

A school for brides : a story of maidens, mystery, and matrimony / Patrice Kindl.

page cm

Sequel to: Keeping the castle.

Summary: In the early 1800s, in a remote corner of England with almost no eligible young men, the eight students at the Winthrop Hopkins Female Academy uncover a mystery while learning all the skills necessary to become a good wife.

ISBN 978-1-101-60982-8

[1. Boarding schools—Fiction. 2. Schools—Fiction. 3. Marriage—Fiction. 4. Courtship—Fiction. 5. Mystery and detective stories. 6. England—Social life and customs—19th century—Fiction. 7. Great Britain—History—1789–1820—Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.K5665Sc 2015 [Fic]—dc23 2014028087