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The Surrender of Colonel Hal
Janet’s years of contented widowhood end abruptly when Lieutenant-Colonel Hal Haldane walks into the dining room at Roxholme. Overwhelmed by his charisma and his battered good looks, she sets her sights on this fifty-year-old, never-married career officer whose disdain for women is legendary. But Janet is both persistent and well-connected. Hal encounters her everywhere he goes. She both shocks and charms him, but it is not until he accepts her wager that Colonel Hal is in real danger. If Janet can use her connections to assist Hal’s beloved youngest brother, Hal must pretend to court her until he leaves for the Peninsula again. Pretend courtship becomes a brief affair until Hal’s leave is up. Neither Hal or Janet finds it easy to move on, so when Hal returns to England on regimental business, the affair is rekindled, and this time, Hal feels duty bound to propose marriage, thinking this must be what motivated Janet all along.
Wrong again. Janet has no need of marriage, especially not to a man who considers marriage a duty and a trap. Shocked by her refusal, Hal once again sails for Portugal as Wellington prepares his final defence of Lisbon.
Janet resumes her old busy social life, but the joy is gone. She misses Hal and begins to regret turning him down. When a close friend decides to join her husband in Lisbon and seeks a travelling companion, Janet seizes the opportunity. If she can only speak with Hal again, she will know if there is a chance for them. Janet and Hal are reunited, but they have some way to go to work out a compromise that gives them both the happiness they deserve.
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SEPTEMBER 30, 2026
The Surrender of Colonel Hal
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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
