A Distant Drum

Fanny Templeton is a young widow and worried about her stepdaughter, who is about to marry the penniless Freddie March. Yet her own life is about to change, as she travels to France and then Brussels with her employer and encounters March's older brother Lord Ordley. She falls madly in love, but nothing is simple when it is wartime. The pair manages to get back to England, but danger continues to follow the couple. The memorable story written in the early 21st century by Marguerite Bell, a pseudonym of Ida Pollock, provides a love tale set in romantic and tragic circumstances.A must-read for fans of literary romance and surprising twists of fate. -