The blended plot lines and complications are integral to the potential for Lark and Channing’s future together. They have careers and responsibilities as well as relationships with other people. These characters are well rounded and fully depicted. While their relationship first stutters from the distractions of their lives, when they decide to pursue it, the romance develops in a realistic, charming, erotic, and organic manner. Will she return to her analyst job in Boston? Will she sell the estate? Will she accept the offer of her oldest, dearest friend and neighbor, Kenny Hargreaves, to marry him? That last bit is more nuanced than in might appear: Kenny is the Viscount Teasley (a hereditary peer), and also gay–and needs to produce an heir.Ī Proper Cuppa Tea is a smart and sexy romance featuring two professional women. However, the investments of his estate are not sufficient to cover the taxes, let alone clearly needed repairs. She is his primary heir and inherits the family manor. Settling Channing’s grandfather’s estate turns out to be more complicated than anticipated. Millions of dollars and the potential for breakthrough relief for millions of people who suffer from the disease hang in the balance. When her inquiry reveals that some of those reporting the potential heart problems were in the control and did not receive the drug, the possibility of tampering with the trial becomes very real. A few of the subjects have experienced alarming symptoms of dizziness and heart palpitations. Indeed, the tea instruction also prompts Lark’s new interest in and awareness of tea for the next several weeks.Ī clinical research manager for Gipson Pharmaceuticals, Lark is on her way to Cambridge to investigate problems with the human trial phase of a new arthritis medication. Lark’s cheery demeanor is not enough to dispel Channing’s mood, although the two women do find some civil ground over the course of the flight, confessing their lives’ current turning points and including the lesson in how to make tea. Like Channing she appears near the thirty-year mark. Her seatmate, the observant and quick-thinking Lark sports short and tousled honey-colored hair and a business casual look. ‘Sweetheart, did you remember to stop the newspaper?’” Once settled into her seat in First Class, Channing finds herself saved from an advance by a handsome male lead of a popular television show when her female seatmate, “reached casually across the dividing console and took her hand. While waiting in the British Airways lounge for her flight, a very inebriated businessman’s ridiculously crass attempt to chat up Channing adds to her foul mood. The downside of her looks is deftly illustrated by the frequent and unwanted attention from men. Tall and beautiful, with auburn hair and blue-green eyes, Channing is a woman who turns heads. The task provides the cover for her to walk away from her job as a high-powered risk analyst and, more importantly, the tattered fallout from an office affair that has become intolerable. She is traveling from Boston, USA, to Cambridge, England, to settle her beloved grandfather Poppa’s estate. The advice ends a rather bumpy first encounter for the leads of KG MacGregor’s new romance, A Proper Cuppa Tea.Ĭhanning Hughes has been having a terribly horrid day. Lark Latimer on making a “proper cuppa,” a term that can only mean tea to residents of the British Isles. “Don’t forget–the milk always comes first.” That is Channing Hughes’ parting advice to Dr.
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