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May 2015
On Sale: May 5, 2015
336 pages ISBN: 1492609935 EAN: 9781492609933 Kindle: B00KPYVYM4 Paperback / e-Book
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Romance Historical
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 Americaâ
€”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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