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    The Lost Love of a Soldier

    By Jane Lark

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    ‘Fans of War and Peace will relish this poignant novel of love and loss’ International Bestseller, Nicola Cornick

    Naïve and innocent, Lady Ellen Pembroke falls for a dashing young army officer. Captain Paul Harding has such an easy, enchanting smile and his blue eyes glow; vibrancy and warmth emanating from him. She is in love.

    In turn, the Captain finds his attention captured by the beautiful young daughter of the Duke of Pembroke at a house party in the summer. Finding Ellen is like finding treasure on the battle field. His sanity clings to her – something beautiful to remind him that not all in the world is ugly.

    Ellen is someone to fight for and someone to survive for when he is inevitably called to arms in the battle of Waterloo…

    The passionate fourth book in the Regency romance series, The Marlow Family Secrets.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins UK
    Release dateJul 17, 2014
    ISBN9780007594658
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    The Lost Love of a Soldier
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    Jane Lark

    Jane is a coffee, chocolate and red wine lover, and a late-night writer of compelling, passionate, and emotionally charged fiction. The kindle bestselling author of The Illicit Love of a Courtesan, with books shortlisted for several industry awards. Jane's books may contain love, hate, violence, death, passion, a little swearing, and an ending you are never going to forget.

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    • 4/5
      tugs at the heartstrings...I did not expect to be as moved by this novel as I was.The young innocent who flees a harsh father to the arms of her true love and from thence to Gretna Green pulled me in. Actually Ellen's choices were few. Either she marry a much older, titled gentleman her father has dictated she must accept or take the choice about her future into her own hands. Ellen, Lady Eleanor, daughter of the Duke of Pembroke, chooses to give up her position in society, and takes up the life of 'following the drum' with her husband, Captain Paul Harding--right to Brussels, the Battle of Quatre-Bras and Waterloo. Really the introduction into the life Ellen was to lead was pretty stark for a young girl of seventeen who's known very little of the harsh realities of life and even more so of war.Paul's regiment had been bound for America but with the escape of Napoleon that all changed.The scene at Lord Richmond's ball has been played out in various novels including Heyer's An Infamous Army. It gets to me every time, as it did once.Here though, the battle is the prelude to the change in status for the young Captain's wife, who has no idea where the course she choses, whilst in shock, will eventually lead her.I did shed a tear or two when she finally realizes the situation she has blindly walked into in the grips of her despair. The title says it all!And then of course the tragedy and suffering that happens now will continue through other novels for herself and others.A harsher depiction of the regency times than is often given, the grim reality of war, and begs the question generally of how does one survive major tragedies and disasters, alone and destitute, without resources?It certainly adds to my understandings about John Harding, the Duke of Pembroke in The Scandalous Love of a Duke.A NetGalley ARC
    • 3/5
      *I received this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review*“The Lost Love of a Soldier” is the prequel of “The Illicit Love of a Courtesan” so I decided to read it first and I don’t regret it. Because just by reading the sinopsis of “The Illicit Love of a Courtesan” one can realise that its prequel does not have a happy ending....Ellen Pembroke is only sixteen when she falls madly in love with Captain Paul Harding. The feeling is mutual, but Paul is “only” the sixth son of a count so he is not good enough for Ellen’s father, the Duke of Pembroke. He is determined to marry his daughter with a duke much older than her and, after refusing Paul’s proposal, he locks Ellen in her room until she agrees to obey him. But Ellen cannot conceive a future without Paul and runs away with him to Scotland where they get married.Paul is a soldier, so Ellen must now be the wife of an army official, with all the sacrifices that that brings. Paul’s regiment is scheduled to leave for America soon when word comes that Napoleon escaped and is regrouping his army, which means they will now leave for Belgium instead, where they will end up fighting Napoleon in Waterloo.I had already read “The Passionate Love of a Rake”, so I already knew what Ellen would become, but it was nice to be able to accompany her journey. And to realize how, do to circumstances, the cruelty of the one who should have helped her the most and her own naivete, she sees herself in a situation where she has no alternative but to do what she must in order to survive...Ellen and Paul’s love story, although short, is very sweet, but it is also very naive. It’s a teenage love and, especially for Ellen, it seems to be all they need, and enough to surpass everything. Sadly, that is not how life works...This prequel is, basically, the beginning of the end of Ellen’s age of the innocence. Ellen is so naive at the beginning of the story that she has difficulty accepting that Paul killed a thief, in self defence, knowing perfectly well that he is an army officer recently returned from war. That was something that became annoying, I mean, I can understand her initial shock, but the constant ramblings about her husband being a killer were getting old...Life, however, makes sure to take Ellen’s innocence away and harden her. And the Ellen at the end of the book is a lot different from the one at the beginning...A series I am enjoying reading very much and that I’ll keep reading.