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September 2014
On Sale: August 26, 2014
Featuring: Helen Windship Brooks; Riley Spencer; Wils Brandl
320 pages
ISBN: 149260383X
EAN: 9781492603832
Kindle: B00KPYVYM4
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Mystery
In this enthralling story of love, loss, and divided
loyalties, two students fall in love on the eve of WWI and
must face a world at war—from opposing sides. Cambridge, MA, 1914: Helen Windship Brooks, the precocious
daughter of the prestigious Boston family, is struggling to
find herself at the renowned Harvard-Radcliffe university
when carefree British playboy, Riley Spencer, and his
brooding German poet-cousin, Wils Brandl, burst into her
sheltered world. As Wils quietly helps the beautiful,
spirited Helen navigate Harvard, they fall for each other
against a backdrop of tyrannical professors, intellectual
debates, and secluded boat rides on the Charles River. But with foreign tensions mounting and the country teetering
on the brink of World War I, German-born Wils finds his
future at Harvard—and in America—increasingly in danger.
When both cousins are called to fight on opposing sides of
the same war, Helen must decide if she is ready to fight her
own battle for what she loves most. Based on the true story behind a mysterious and
controversial World War I memorial at this world-famous
university, The End of Innocence sweeps readers from the
elaborate elegance of Boston's high society to Harvard's
hallowed halls to Belgium's war-ravaged battlefields,
offering a powerful and poignant vision of love and hope in
the midst of a violent, broken world.
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