Claire by A.S. Harrington
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Overview: Varian Drew, after a year in debtor’s prison due to his father’s perfidy, is rescued by the generosity of Sir Colbert Ffawlkes, a Navy man, and a former friend of his father. In return, Drew is to marry one of Sir Colbert’s five daughters, two of whom– Clytie and Cleo– are already happily wed. By chronological order, Claudia ought to be next, but poor bespectacled Claudia would much rather be wed to her books. Chloe, barely twenty, has fallen desperately in love with Timothy Dickinson, one of her father’s ship officers. Which leaves only Claire. Eighteen, plump, and according to her sisters Claudia and Chloe, with “the sensitivity of a brick,” Claire offers herself instead as the sacrificial marriage lamb.
When word is received on Drew’s and Claire’s wedding day that Sir Colbert has been wounded in battle, Claire, Claudia, and Chloe go to Portugal to bring their father home, and Varian Drew takes himself to the other side of the world, to India, to risk everything to gain back the fortune that his father so wantonly destroyed. The newlyweds are apart for two-and-a-half years, and when circumstances bring them back together, Claire brings with her a tiny packet of letters that hold the secret of a terrible discovery: correspondence that she believes proves that her husband and her father were colluding to spy for the French. She is beside herself with indecision about what she should do– Expose her late father, who was wounded and eventually died in service to his beloved England? Expose her husband? Say nothing? Destroy the letters for the sake of her marriage? For Claire loved her late father deeply, and she has discovered that she is in love with this passionate, imperfect man whom she married all those years ago.
As Varian and Claire each deal with betrayal and mistrust, they must learn hard lessons about themselves and each other. Claire’s rocky journey to rescue her marriage leads her into Portugal in August of 1808 during a historic battle between France and Portugal, backed by the British. Just as the cannons stop firing, the battle that Claire is fighting for her heart and her marriage begins in earnest, and the outcome can only be won by regaining her husband’s shattered trust.
Genre: Romance
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