Unavailable
Unavailable
Unavailable
Ebook275 pages4 hours
Love Under Fire
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
4.5/5
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this ebook
Waif-like beauty Elvina is tiny and immature after years of malnourishment and indeed she looks far younger than her seventeen years.
Weak, however, she is not. Hardened by years of beatings and abuse at the hands of her half-crazed Portuguese stepmother and sickened by her father's constant drunken behaviour, Elvina is determined to escape Lisbon and flee to her native England.
Despite the dangers of the Napoleonic War, which is raging in Spain and Portugal, she dyes her skin to make herself look Portuguese and stows away aboard the yacht of the handsome and heroic Lord Wye, bound for London with urgent dispatches from the Duke of Wellington to the Prime Minister.
When she is discovered on board, the kindly Lord Wye believes her story that she is a thirteen-year-old fleeing the War to join her English sister and takes pity on her.
He agrees that he will take her to England in his yacht, but first he must call in to Spain for more intelligence to show the Prime Minister and the weather suddenly becomes increasing tempestuous.
And amid a terrible storm at sea and captured by the French only to fight their way free, a deep friendship under fire is kindled between Elvina and Lord Wye and soon becomes an all-consuming love when they arrive back in England.
And then other dangers to their love for each other begin to emerge.
Weak, however, she is not. Hardened by years of beatings and abuse at the hands of her half-crazed Portuguese stepmother and sickened by her father's constant drunken behaviour, Elvina is determined to escape Lisbon and flee to her native England.
Despite the dangers of the Napoleonic War, which is raging in Spain and Portugal, she dyes her skin to make herself look Portuguese and stows away aboard the yacht of the handsome and heroic Lord Wye, bound for London with urgent dispatches from the Duke of Wellington to the Prime Minister.
When she is discovered on board, the kindly Lord Wye believes her story that she is a thirteen-year-old fleeing the War to join her English sister and takes pity on her.
He agrees that he will take her to England in his yacht, but first he must call in to Spain for more intelligence to show the Prime Minister and the weather suddenly becomes increasing tempestuous.
And amid a terrible storm at sea and captured by the French only to fight their way free, a deep friendship under fire is kindled between Elvina and Lord Wye and soon becomes an all-consuming love when they arrive back in England.
And then other dangers to their love for each other begin to emerge.
Unavailable
Related to Love Under Fire
Related ebooks
107. A Nightingale Sang Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5115. Love Runs In Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings322 Look with Love Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRegency Dukes Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5283 The Angel and The Rake Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Once Upon a Christmas: Kismet Bay, #1 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNo Conventional Miss Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFalling for the Scandalous Lady Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHis Unlikely Duchess: A Victorian Historical Romance Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings124. In Love In Lucca Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMiss Antiqua's Adventure: Regency Romance Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Viscount's Sweet Temptation: A Duke of Danby Summons, #1 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Husband Season Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Viscount Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lady Concealed: Tenacious Trents, #8 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5103. The Call of The Highlands Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5At the Mercy of the Marquis (Preview) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Silent Widowed Laird Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings309 The Windmill of Love Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSpying on Christmas: MIracle Express, #8 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsInfinitely My Marquess: Ever Beloved, #3 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings118. The Love Trap Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHis Mask of Retribution Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Ring For The Pregnant Debutante Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5285 Love comes to the Castle Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings321 The Devil In Love Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Sweet Temptations and the Surprise Billionaire Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Lady and The Captain (Book 2 Gentlemen of Honor Series) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMiss Sophie's Secret Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Marrying for Love or Money? Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Romance For You
Adults Only Volume 3: Seven Erotica Shorts Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Erotic Fantasies Anthology Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5It Starts with Us: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Messy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bossy: An Erotic Workplace Diary Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Before We Were Strangers: A Love Story Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Kingdom of Dreams Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Confess: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ugly Love: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Him: Him, #1 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5All Your Perfects: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Under the Roses Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Heart Bones: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Swear on This Life: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5My Favorite Half-Night Stand Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Tess of the d'Urbervilles Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Something Borrowed: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hopeless Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Stone Heart Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5November 9: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Home: the most moving and heartfelt novel you'll read this year Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Maybe Not: A Novella Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Chased by Moonlight Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Maybe Now: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Glory Over Everything: Beyond The Kitchen House Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Finding Perfect: A Novella Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Visitors Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Without Merit: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dating You / Hating You Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related categories
Reviews for Love Under Fire
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
4.5/5
2 ratings0 reviews