193. Love Under Fire

By Barbara Cartland

Book Overview

Waif-like beauty Elvina is tiny and immature after years of malnourishment and indeed she looks far younger than her seventeen years. Weak, however, she is not. Hardened by years of beatings and abuse at the hands of her half-crazed Portuguese stepmother and sickened by her father's constant drunken behaviour, Elvina is determined to escape Lisbon and flee to her native England. Despite the dangers of the Napoleonic War, which is raging in Spain and Portugal, she dyes her skin to make herself look Portuguese and stows away aboard the yacht of the handsome and heroic Lord Wye, bound for London with urgent dispatches from the Duke of Wellington to the Prime Minister.When she is discovered on board, the kindly Lord Wye believes her story that she is a thirteen-year-old fleeing the War to join her English sister and takes pity on her. He agrees that he will take her to England in his yacht, but first he must call in to Spain for more intelligence to show the Prime Minister and the weather suddenly becomes increasing tempestuous.And amid a terrible storm at sea and captured by the French only to fight their way free, a deep friendship under fire is kindled between Elvina and Lord Wye and soon becomes an all-consuming love when they arrive back in England.And then other dangers to their love for each other begin to emerge.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1788670604
• ISBN13: 9781788670609
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Barbara Cartland
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

A VERY GOOD BOOK FOR A YOUNG FIRST TIME READER OF ROMANCE

I first read this book when I was only 15. It was about the third book I have ever read (the first being Black Beauty). My parents kept urging me to pick up a book and read, but I was stubborn and didn't want to read a book without pictures, and lets face it, I was too old to be reading pop up books. So when my parents and I went to Harrisburg, I bought Love Under Fire just to keep my parents off my back. Imagine my surprise when I couldn't put the book down! I actually finished it in less than a day. It took me three months to finish Black Beauty (and it had pictures). From then on, I was a Barbara Cartland fan. I don't read much of her books now since my taste has change to a different type of romance (with smut). But I would recommend her as an author for the young budding romantic. Her books are never tactless nor filled with too much descriptions of sexual nature that parents would be horrified to have their young children read it. I plan on introducing my daughter to her when she is old enough. The books I tend to read now would be too desciptive for her young mind.