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Can a broken soldier with a secret, and a grieving nurse find happiness together? After the death of her beloved brother, Ashley Myers takes up nursing. She graduates from The Harrow School of Nursing in 1868. Working as an assistant to a local doctor, she encounters one of his patients, a coal miner who has been cast aside by a greedy colliery owner. The terrible treatment this man and his fellow miners endured appalls Ashley, particularly since her own father died of the miner’s disease – black lung. In her next job, she becomes a private nurse for a wealthy recluse who is still recovering from war injuries. The War Between the States, has left James Whybrow broken in health and spirit. He is guilt ridden because he survived while his men perished. Will love allow these two to forget their torment? Can their fledgling love survive once James divulges his secret?
Author
Margaret Tanner is an award winning, best selling author. As well as writing historical novels set in frontier Australia she has discovered a love for writing Western Romance. Her novella, Edwina of Connecticut is one of the 50 novels in the American Mail Order Bride series. Christmas Cowboy is in the Western Christmas Anthology, Silver Belles And Stetsons. . She has had numerous short stories published over the years, but writing Historical romance novels is her passion. Her favourite historical period is the 1st World War. Not only has she painstakingly researched this era, but was fortunate enough to make a poignant pilgrimage to the battlefields of Gallipoli (in Turkey), France and Belgium. She is married with three grown up sons, and two gorgeous grand-daughters. Margaret lives in Australia. She has recently retired from work, and hopes to concentrate on her writing.
