A farmer's daughter and heiress, Catherine fell madly in
love with wastrel Harry Dunnan. Married for a month, Harry
buys a commission in the Lowland Scots Fusiliers and leaves
to fight the French in Canada. During that time, Catherine
receives thoughtful and perceptive letters regarding his
life so far from home. Catherine thoroughly peruses his
letters, remaking Harry into a compassionate and insightful
man. On the arrival of a letter announcing his death,
Catherine descends into an all-encompassing despair.
Swallowed in grief, Catherine is unaware of her
surroundings.
Moncrief, the youngest son of a duke, joins the military to
escape his home. He challenged and disagreed with his
father on every issue. Finally, his father sends him into
the military to rid himself of Moncrief's presence. The
military molds him into a fearless and confident man, yet a
lonely one. When a fellow officer asks Moncrief to write to
his wife, he never expects to fall in love. At the
unforeseen death of his father and siblings, Moncrief
returns to England to assume the title.
Stopping at Dunnan's home to convey his regrets to his
widow, Moncrief is shocked to find Catherine teetering at
death's door. Wallowing in grief, Catherine has steadily
begun taking laudanum to get through the days and nights.
If ever there is a woman who needs rescuing, it's
Catherine. Realizing his duplicity in writing the letters
has added to Catherine's illusion of her husband, Moncrief
takes responsibility of Catherine. However, can a
relationship based on dishonesty survive?
Ms. Ranney gives us a powerful, emotional and touching
story of a woman struggling to come to terms with the death
of her husband. Readers are taken on a journey filled with
raw emotions from Catherine as she grows from a pitiful
woman to a woman who's a tower of strength and capable of
accepting reality instead of illusion.
Catherine Dunnan is devastated when her beloved goes off to
war -- and only his promise to write often can sustain her
in her loneliness. And what letters they are, filled with
heartfelt emotions that move her to respond in kind. But
then the unthinkable occurs. He is cruelly lost to her, and
his beautiful words of passion and devotion cease forever.
When Moncrief agreed to write warm and loving missives in a
fellow officer's name, he never expected he'd become so
enamored of the incomparable lady who answered them, a
woman he has never met. Returning to England to assume the
unexpected title of duke, Moncrief is irresistibly drawn to
the beauty who has unwittingly won his heart. More than
anything, he yearns to ease Catherine's sadness with his
tender kisses. But once she learns his secret, will his
love be spurned?
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