Sunday’s Child by
Rosemary Morris
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Georgianne Whitley’s
beloved father and brothers died in the war against Napoleon Bonaparte. While
she is grieving for them, she must deal with her unpredictable mother’s sorrow,
and her younger sisters’ situation caused by it.
Georgianne’s problems
increase when the arrogant, wealthy but elderly Earl of Pennington, proposes
marriage to her for the sole purpose of being provided with an heir. At first
she is tempted by his proposal, but something is not quite right about him. She
rejects him not suspecting it will lead to unwelcome repercussions.
Once, Georgianne had
wanted to marry an army officer. Now, she decides never to marry ‘a military
man’ for fear he will be killed on the battlefield. However, Georgianne still
dreams of a happy marriage before unexpected violence forces her to relinquish
the chance to participate in a London Season sponsored by her aunt.
Shocked and in pain,
Georgianne goes to the inn where her cousin Sarah’s step-brother, Major
Tarrant, is staying, while waiting for the blacksmith to return to the village
and shoe his horse. Recently, she has been reacquainted with Tarrant—whom she
knew when in the nursery—at the vicarage where Sarah lives with her husband
Reverend Stanton.
The war in the Iberian
Peninsula is nearly at an end so, after his older brother’s death, Tarrant, who
was wounded, returns to England where his father asks him to marry and produce
an heir.
To please his father,
Tarrant agrees to marry, but due to a personal tragedy he has decided never to
father a child.
When Georgianne, arrives
at the inn, quixotic Tarrant sympathises with her unhappy situation. Moreover,
he is shocked by the unforgivably brutal treatment she has suffered.
Full of admiration for
her beauty and courage Tarrant decides to help Georgianne.
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