num_pages: 332
description:  She harbors a secret yearning.As a lover of animals and nature Beatrix Hathaway has always been more comfortable outdoors than in the ballroom. Even though she participated in the London season in the past the classic beauty and free-spirited Beatrix has never been swept away or seriously courted . . . and she has resigned herself to the fate of never finding love. Has the time come for the most unconventional of the Hathaway sisters to settle for an ordinary manjust to avoid spinsterhood? He's a world-weary cynic.Captain Christopher Phelan is a handsome daring soldier who plans to marry Beatrix's friend the vivacious flirt Prudence Mercer when he returns from fighting abroad. But as he explains in his letters to Pru life on the battlefield has darkened his souland it's becoming clear that Christopher won't come back as the same man. When Beatrix learns of Pru's disappointment she decides to help by concocting Pru's letters to Christopher for her. Soon the correspondence between Beatrix and Christopher develops into something fulfilling and deep . . . and when Christopher comes home he's determined to claim the woman he loves. What began as Beatrix's innocent deception has resulted in the agony of unfulfilled loveand a passion that can't be denied.
language: English
title: Love in the Afternoon
publisher: St. Martin's