Book description
After surviving the Napoleonic Wars, Sir Benedict Harper is struggling to move on, his body and spirit in need of a healing touch. Never does Ben imagine that hope will come in the form of a beautiful woman who has seen her own share of suffering. After the lingering death…
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1 author picked The Escape as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I like books with strong and sensible female characters and male characters who are not the stereotypical “alpha male,” that’s why I’ve read this book several times.
When widowed Samantha is faced with the prospect of being forced to live with her hateful in-laws, she neither dithers nor worries about the impropriety of fleeing her home with the help of a male acquaintance. Crippled in the Napoleonic wars, he is feeling somewhat oppressed by his own relatives.
Another “plus” for me is that they do not so much fall in love as slide into it. The tendency of romantic characters…
From Kathleen's list on navigating family and romance in the Georgian/Regency period.
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