EAN: 9780755113996 ISBN: 0755113993
215 pages. Size: 135 x 205 mm. Paperback.
It is spring 1815. Fanny Templeton, a young widow employed by Lady Mapleforth, is anxious about her stepdaughter's marriage to penniless Freddie March. Approaching Freddie's older brother, Colonel the Marquis of Ordley, Fanny is shocked by his angry reaction, but to her relief it nevertheless becomes clear the pair are being looked after.
Keen to explore France, Lady Mapleforth hires a chateau near Nice, but just as her party arrives Napoleon escapes from exile on Elba. She therefore hurries north Brussels, where English society is gathering around the Allied armies. Lord Ordley is already there with his regiment and when he and Fanny meet again things change. They fall in love and at the Duchess of Richmond's Ball Fanny is given a ring.
However, Napoleon's forces are approaching and it's clear battle is imminent. Lady Mapleforth departs for Antwerp, but Fanny stays to help with the wounded who are soon arriving in numbers. Within days there is news of an Allied victory, and Fanny also receives a message from Edward Ordley, who is badly wounded and requesting she join him at once. She finds him in a barn near the edge of the battlefield, conscious but not expected to survive. He wants her to marry him without delay, and despite some misgivings she agrees. The following day he improves slightly and Fanny nurses him back to health in an nearbye farmhouse.
However, after travelling to Brussels and then home to England, Fanny begins to wonder if she has made a terrible mistake. . . . Ida Pollock
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