title: Whispers of Love
author: Harris, Rosie
description: It is 1914 and Christabel Blakemore is happily preparing for her wedding when she receives the shattering news that her fiancé has been drowned at sea. Heartbroken and fearing her parents will find out she is pregnant throw her out she decides to tell them she wants to help the war effort by leaving home to become a nurse.
  
  At Hilbury Hospital she grows close to one of the doctors but he is already married. Knowing that she cannot bring up the baby alone, Christabel asks her brother, Lewis to help her get the baby adopted and makes him promise never to speak of the matter again.
  
  Christabel starts to build a better future for herself, until circumstances force her to return home again. She finds that her brother's wife Violet has just had a new baby and she is filled with remorse and regret about what she has done.
  She knows she had no alternative, for her sake and the baby's, but she wonders if she'll ever be free from the fateful decision she made...