This year's is UNDER THE HARVEST MOON and it has only a few more days for sale at 99 cents.
You will want this one. Set in Cheshire in a village after the wars are over, it is 1815 autumn and the soldiers are coming home. And so does a baby whom many think is from this village.
But WHOSE BABY IS HE?
Everyone in the village of Rheabridge wants to learn.
The story:
The new Earl Barlow returns home from Waterloo, intending to live by his own rules. The woman he loved and lost years ago visits for the Harvest festival—and he plans to offer the Widow Wright what they both want.
Being an obedient female has brought Vicky only sorrow. But with the need to visit Ford’s home to identify a mysterious toddler who may be her deceased sister’s son, she questions if a lady who has lived by the rules can throw them all away to seize her last chance for happiness.
AN EXCERPT, All rights reserved. Copyright Cerise DeLand, 2023.
“How many girls from this town ran off to the wars?” asked the vicar’s fiancé, Lady Afton.
That was a very pertinent question. The town was at most one thousand people strong. How many young women would leave their homes and embrace a vagabond life amid the turmoil of war? How many were lovely, wealthy young women with good prospects before them? How many had fallen for a man so different from them that all it took was just one look, one night, one bold assignation beneath the stars and the girl would run off into the unknown? To Spain. To a life of hardship and fright. With a man she adored and would never once complain of the dust or the deprivation until she was with child and feared the birth might come in the midst of battle and she might not survive.
Who did that?
Her own sister.
The sweet girl who chose love and ran off into the wide world embracing the one she adored…and who never came home.
Vicky pushed her glass away. Surveyed those at table.
How many people in this room had changed their lives with one bold decision?
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