num_pages: 254
description: A tender and triumphant story of forbidden love in the aftermath of warWhen Captain Ashleigh Arthur Dalton went to war in 1914 he never expected to fall in love. Yet over three long years at the front his dashing batman Private West became his reason for fightingand his reason for living.But Ashs war ends in catastrophe. Gravely wounded hes evacuated home to his familys country house in Highcliffe. Bereft of West angry and alone Ash struggles to re-join the genteel world he no longer understands.For Harry West an ostler from Londons East End it was love at first sight when he met kind and complex Captain Dalton. Harry doubts their friendship can survive in the class-bound world back home but he knows hell never forget his captain.When the guns finally fall silent Harry finds himself adrift in London. Unemployed and desperate he swallows his pride and travels to Highcliffe in search of work and the man he loves. Under the nose of Ashs overbearing father the mens intense wartime friendship deepens into a passionate forbidden love affair.But breaching the barriers of class and sexuality is dangerous and enemies lurk in Highcliffes rose-scented shadows.After giving their all for their country Harry and Ash face a terrible choicedefy family society and the law to love as their hearts demand or say goodbye forever...
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title: The Last Kiss
publisher: None