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InscrÃbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Lovely story set against the backdrop of Spain during the Peninsular War. The hero was a beta guy, a doctor who had loved the heroine for a while but was so shy that he would never have done anything about it. He stepped out of his shell to marry her to save her from worse. Nice traveling story. I enjoyed the details of the Spanish people during Napoleon's invasion. One of my favorite time periods and settings. I felt the hero was better developed than the heroine in this case. Haven't been disappointed in a CK book yet and she has a large backlist for me to work my way through. ( ) Nell has had a hard life, growing up with a father driven by his impulse to gamble and drink and having to fend for herself at the army camp. Fortunately she has found a niche for herself assisting in the medical tent. But her small happiness with the staff there is threatened when her father makes plans to marry her off to pay his debts. One of the doctors, an unimposing young man named Jesse, becomes part of a scheme to save her--by marrying her. But unknown to Nell, Jesse really does love her and although he has said he will annull the marriage once she is safely across the border, he hopes to win her over with and declare his love for her so that they can truly be man and wife. However, they are in the middle of a war, and first of all they have to find a refuge from their enemies-which is easier said than done. A sweet little romance with a nice historical feel. Captain Jesse Randall, surgeon, loves Nell Mason. This story is a touching, simply told saga of their marriage and subsequent retreat across Spain. They married for her protection because her father was being bullied into selling her to an abusive army officer in repayment of gambling debts. The frustrated bully sees that they, and the army hospital they work in, are abandoned during the retreat. Our hero, heroine, patients and other medical personnel are forced to find their own way across Spain. This story is moving. It is told in a simple compassionate, narrative style and tells some of the horrors of war, plus the dirt, mud, thirst and hunger. The Wedding Journey is truly well done and is one of my favorites.
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HTML:A marriage for protection in the midst of a wartime retreat becomes the passion of a lifetime in this classic Signet Regency Romance from Carla Kelly. AVAILABLE DIGITALLY FOR THE FIRST TIME Set against the vivid historical background of the Napoleonic Wars, The Wedding Journey is the unforgettable story of Captain Jesse Randall, assistant surgeon of Marching Hospital Number Eight, and his undying love for beautiful, young Nell Mason. A battlefield is no place to wage a campaign of love, and even if it was, Jesse is far too shy to ever confess his love to Nell, who helps the surgeons in the field hospital. Her father, Captain Bertie Mason, is a compulsive gambler, and when Nell’s mother dies, he desperately agrees to marry her to the despicable Major William Bones to relieve his crushing gambling debts. To prevent such a fate, Jesse hastily weds Nell. He doesn’t dare hope she’ll ever return his devotion. A marriage on the front lines of the Napoleonic Wars would be difficult enough, but now Major Bones is out for vengeance. As the British army retreats from Burgos for Portugal, Jesse, Nell, and a handful of the sick and stragglers are left behind to fend for themselves. The newly married couple must now draw on all their strength to survive and save their small band, and somehow nurture a love that can endure the most trying of journeys… Don’t miss Carla Kelly’s other classic Signet Regency romance, The Lady’s Companion. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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