Beyond the Sunrise
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3.9 • 9 Ratings
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- $4.99
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- $4.99
Publisher Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of the Survivor’s Club novels comes “an epic love story” (Publishers Weekly) of intrigue and deception and the promises that can break a heart.…
“I will love you all my life and even beyond that.”
Even at fifteen, Jeanne, the privileged daughter of a royalist émigré, knew what she liked: Englishman Robert Blake, bastard son of a marquess. Yet his questionable birth rendered him forbidden. Forced to part, they were still young enough to believe in tomorrow. But as time passed, that brief ephemeral flirtation at Haddington Hall faded into memory.
Eleven years later in Portugal, during the Peninsular Wars, they meet again, both of them spies, and destined to be working on opposing sides. He is now a captain with the British army. She is the widowed Marquesa das Minas—sometimes going by the name Joana da Fonte. However for only one of them does the flicker of recognition still burn.
Amid the fury of war and in the shadow of secrets, passion flares once again. But for Joana and Robert, each entrusted to a dangerous mission that demands deception, falling in love could be the most dangerous risk of all.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Balogh's ( The Secret Pearl ) new epic love story is a winner. In 1799 in England, the illegitimate 17-year-old son of an English marquess meets a 15-year-old French countess at a ball; they fall in love but--because of their respective social status--are forced to part. Eleven years later, they meet again at another ball, this time in Lisbon. Robert Blake is now a captain with the British army and widow Joana da Fonte is Marquesa das Minas. Although only one recognizes the other, both fall in love again. The part each plays in the French-Iberian conflict, however, appears to conspire against their happy ending. Their differing stations in life are also still an issue, as Robert warns Joana: `` . . . no bridge . . . can connect our lives . . . permanently. Neither of us would be happy in the other's world once the first gloss had worn off our passion for each other.'' The way in which Balogh resolves her story makes for absorbing reading right up until the end.
