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To Love Is to Live

Denise Robins (1940)

SubgenreContemporary Romance
Age groupAdult 18+
Content ratingPG-13
Pages (Quick Read (<250))
SettingHistorical Earth
CSM age16
Goodreads5/5 (3)

Content levels

ViolenceMild
Sexual contentMild
LanguageNone

Trigger warnings

Cheating/InfidelityWar

Positive tags

slow burnhealing arc

Tropes

Second ChanceMarriage of ConvenienceMilitary HeroLove TriangleForbidden LoveChildhood Friends

Themes

Identitylove vs dutyLoyaltysacrifice

Synopsis

Her husband ordered her into her arms of another man! Gail Partner had married handsome Bill Cardew because he was and old family friend and a soldier going to the front. But in Edinburgh, the ghost of her first love reappears in the guise of a laird in his ancestral castle. She thought her old lover, Ian, had forgotten her, but when she meets him again, she realises that for Ian there has been no other woman to take her place in his arms... Now, her former lover was her husband's Commanding Officer, and she striving to remain loyal to the ambitious soldier, with whom she has married.

Tags

WWII RomanceScottish SettingClassic RomanceWartime Drama