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Saving Wolf
In a defeated town in northern Portugal during the Peninsular War, Suzette de Bertille finds a starving youth, wolf-like, with strange golden eyes and a thousand-mile stare. She alone knows how to help the man she assumes to be a Portuguese prisoner of war, although she has no idea of the depth of suffering that caused his illness. As Napoleon’s incursion into Portugal progresses, they strike up a friendship that deepens into love. The French forces approach Porto, and the lovers must part as conflicting loyalties and duties force them apart. When British Lieutenant Ranulf Haldane, Suzette’s “Wolf”, reveals his true identity, she is shocked and angry that she has been deceived into a relationship with an enemy of France.
As the fortunes of war shift, and Suzette and her mother must take refuge in Britain, Suzette and Ranulf cross paths again. Love is rekindled though the barriers of nationality and war remain. In Britain, Ranulf struggles with his mental health while Suzette and her mother anxiously wait for news of Colonel de Bertille, Suzette’s father, still fighting in Spain.
Both must learn and change and challenge previous assumptions if they are to find a path to a shared future.
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Good Reads Review
“The historical romance Third Chances by D.S. Weber is a book of exceptional quality. It is well written, shows meticulous research throughout all 29 chapters and has an exciting plot with complex characters that keep the reader interested. The Scottish Borders anno 1800 provides the setting for adventure and mystery.
The central story is not surprisingly about a couple who struggles to meet on level ground in loving union, but circumstances and personal secrets give rise to numerous interconnected subplots, keeping the reader in suspense.
To me the characterization of Ian Kerr and Eloise Denham is the most compelling part of the romance where neither hero nor heroine is a gendered stereotype. The two of them are in their thirties with plenty of life experience and emotional baggage, and in their striving for a happy marriage they exhibit traits that defy the received ideas of masculinity and femininity. She is patient and caring and treats her young stepdaughter with motherly affection, but she also intelligent and brave with a strong sense of agency especially when faced with the couple’s nemesis Jonathan Planchett in the second half of the novel. Ian, a gorgeous male specimen with a military background and a reputation for cavorting with ladies in the colonies, shows an emotional and fragile side of himself once Eloise manages to open up for his pent-up feelings of guilt and shame. Ian has even a genuine interest in clothes and fabric, and when he in chapter 26 drapes his beloved in raspberry pink tissue silk from India and thus brings out her natural beauty, most women readers would understand how special this man is.
Taming tigers is what it is all about,” writes romance writer Daphne Clair, to which I would add that bringing to light the partner’s hidden qualities through compassion is what makes Third Chances so appealing.”
Marina Allemano
Canada
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