Her Lady's Honor
An Historical Lesbian Romance
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Publisher Description
The war might be over, but the battle for love has just begun.
When Lady Eleanor “Nell” St. George arrives in Wales after serving as a veterinarian in the Great War, she doesn’t come alone. With her is her former captain’s beloved warhorse, which she promised to return to him—and a series of recurring nightmares that torment both her heart and her soul. She wants only to complete her task, then find refuge with her family, but when Nell meets the captain’s eldest daughter, all that changes.
Beatrice Hughes is resigned to life as the dutiful daughter. Her mother grieves for the sons she lost to war; the care of the household and remaining siblings falls to Beatrice, and she manages it with a practical efficiency. But when a beautiful stranger shows up with her father’s horse, practicality is the last thing on her mind.
Despite the differences in their social standing, Beatrice and Nell give in to their unlikely attraction, finding love where they least expect it. But not everything in the captain’s house is as it seems. When Beatrice’s mother disappears under mysterious circumstances, Nell must overcome her preconceptions to help Beatrice, however she’s able. Together they must find out what really happened that stormy night in the village, before everything Beatrice loves is lost—including Nell.
This book is approximately 82,000 words
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Dahlia (Racetrack Royalty) finds moments of sweetness amid emotional upheaval in this tumultuous WWI lesbian romance. Lady Eleanor "Nell" St. George used her connections to join the war effort as a veterinarian at the front. When her injured captain tasks her with escorting his horse from France to his home in Wales, she readily agrees. There she meets the captain's beautiful, beleaguered daughter, Beatrice Hughes. With her father away and her mother ill, responsibility for raising the four younger Hughes children fell to Beatrice. Now her tyrannical father is back and Beatrice is essentially a servant in her own home. Though she's as drawn to Nell as Nell is to her, she can't imagine a future where they could be together. When Beatrice's mother dies under mysterious circumstances and the captain drinks himself into the hospital, both women's lives are thrown into chaos as they try to make sense of what happened. Dahlia takes great care with her heroines' emotions as they navigate grief, PTSD, and desire, but their subtle changes of heart become murky as the back-and-forth between them drags on. The class disparity between them leads to weighty arguments about privilege and power that ring true, but which make their rushed happy ending feel a bit too easy. Readers will be pleased though not wowed.
