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Katherine Spencer leads a quiet life with her father, a local doctor, until the war-torn fields of Waterloo bring the dashing young officer Giles Swynford into her world. Hungry for companionship and duty, she agrees to marry the wounded soldier, hoping her nursing keep a part of him alive.
The couple soon arrive at Giles’s family estate in northern England, a place as grand as it is unforgiving. Giles’s health continues to decline, yet he insists on witnessing the reaction of his elder brother, the marquess, to Katherine. When the marquess’s recent widower brother, Richard, returns home, his astonishment at Katherine’s presence sparks a quiet but intense attraction.
Katherine finds herself torn: she has embraced marriage without truly knowing the man she loves, and hidden motives seem to weigh on Giles. The story traces her struggle to reconcile duty, affection, and the secrets that bind them together, all set against the backdrop of Regency-era Britain.
First publish date: 1987
Genre: Romance/Historical Romance
Authors: Roberta Eckert
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