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Following the fall of Napoleon’s forces, the devoted British officer Alexander Devize is called back home to his family estate. He dreams of reclaiming the young beauty Diana Sherwood, with whom he shared a single night of passion and intends to marry. But Diana, stronger and more independent than ever, is moving to London, courting the stable gentleman Robert Welbourne. Unaware of the treachery that lingers, she defies the expectations of a soldier’s wife and pursues her own destiny. Devize wrestles with unwavering devotion and the need to fight a new kind of war—for love, loyalty, and the future he must protect.
First publish date: 2006
Genre: Romance/Historical Romance
Authors: Joan Wolf
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