Major Richard Fitzwilliam appears to have everything he could desire. As the son of an influential earl, respected for his military service, and favoured by the season's loveliest debutante, his future seems secure. Yet heartbreak—and his father's interference—send Richard fleeing England's shores for distant Bermuda, where the Royal Navy is constructing a vast new military base.
Bermuda is idyllic, and Richard soon forms a quiet friendship with Emily Barrow, the sensible and intelligent daughter of the local colonel. Emily is firmly resolved never to marry, a stance that suits a man equally determined to protect his own wounded heart. But beneath the archipelago's sunlit coves and turquoise waters lurk jealousy and malice. What begin as harmless pranks soon turn into dangerous incidents, revealing a cunning enemy with a personal vendetta—one that follows Richard back to London and threatens everything he holds dear.
Set alongside the unfolding events of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, A Soldier's Tale carries Richard Fitzwilliam from glittering ballrooms to shadowed alleyways, from Bermuda's fortifications to the manicured lawns of Rosings Park. As danger closes in and loyalties are tested, Richard must discover the true meaning of courage—and risk his heart once more for a love worth fighting for.
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A Soldier's Tale is a full-length novel of approximately 110,000 words. It is entirely the work of the author's imagination (with a bit of inspiration from Jane Austen, of course) and includes no generative AI whatsoever. The fun is in the imagining and the writing, after all. The spelling conventions are British English.
Thanks to author Trish Henry Green for lending me her own swashbuckling hero, Colonel Nathaniel Ackley, for his cameo appearance.
Genre: Historical Romance
Bermuda is idyllic, and Richard soon forms a quiet friendship with Emily Barrow, the sensible and intelligent daughter of the local colonel. Emily is firmly resolved never to marry, a stance that suits a man equally determined to protect his own wounded heart. But beneath the archipelago's sunlit coves and turquoise waters lurk jealousy and malice. What begin as harmless pranks soon turn into dangerous incidents, revealing a cunning enemy with a personal vendetta—one that follows Richard back to London and threatens everything he holds dear.
Set alongside the unfolding events of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, A Soldier's Tale carries Richard Fitzwilliam from glittering ballrooms to shadowed alleyways, from Bermuda's fortifications to the manicured lawns of Rosings Park. As danger closes in and loyalties are tested, Richard must discover the true meaning of courage—and risk his heart once more for a love worth fighting for.
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A Soldier's Tale is a full-length novel of approximately 110,000 words. It is entirely the work of the author's imagination (with a bit of inspiration from Jane Austen, of course) and includes no generative AI whatsoever. The fun is in the imagining and the writing, after all. The spelling conventions are British English.
Thanks to author Trish Henry Green for lending me her own swashbuckling hero, Colonel Nathaniel Ackley, for his cameo appearance.
Genre: Historical Romance