It is a bittersweet gesture for him given his feelings. When his long-suffering wife dies, Jesse steps in to marry Nell and prevent her sacrifice on the altar of matrimony, or at least offer a significantly better altar. In debt to a moustache-twirling bastard of a villain, Nell’s father plans to offer her up in payment for gambling debts once Nell’s mother – and the protection she affords – is gone. She and her family have followed the drum at the behest of her gormless father and working in the hospital tent is Nell’s contribution to their income. Profoundly shy, Doctor Jesse Randall has loved Nell Mason for years. All of Kelly’s best elements can be found here, as well as her one besetting sin minor shortcoming. I really enjoyed it at the same time as I realised that I have read too many of her novels too close together. The Wedding Journey is another lovely and highly recommendable Carla Kelly Regency romance about genuinely kind and likable people falling in love against the backdrop of war.
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