Title: Saints Save a Sinner
Series: 2015 Daily Dose package “Never Too Late.”
Author: Dawn Douglas
Genre: European/ Historical
Length: Novella (80 pages)
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press (June 1, 2015)
Heat Level: Moderate
Heart Rating: ♥♥♥3Hearts
Blurb: William Arthur Ainsworth, second son of the Earl of Cannahan, has just purchased a Lieutenant’s Commission in the Coldstream Regiment, British Foot Guards. A new officer, Will shows promise and is taken in hand by experienced Scottish Sargent Duncan Blair.
Friendship grows into affection and desire as the men fight the French from Egypt to Sweden and back to the Spanish Peninsula through the six coalitions of the Napoleonic Wars. A bloody defeat in Spain and tragedy at home pull William away from service in the British Army and turn him from an officer to an earl, but status, time, and distance combined can’t change Will’s feelings for Duncan.
When a hard-won peace is finally achieved, Will realizes the most important mission he may ever undertake will be convincing Duncan that the end of the fighting can mean the beginning of their lives together.
A story from the Dreamspinner Press 2015 Daily Dose package “Never Too Late.”
ISBN: 978-1-63476-409-4
Reviewer: Shorty
Product Link: http://www.dreamspinnerpress.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=6543&cPath=63_1424
Review: This story takes place in a time where positions were bought and homosexuality was unheard of. William has purchased a Lieutenant’s Commission in the Coldstream Regiment, British Foot Guards. I must say I found this odd as surely the men paying for positions were not trained for them to begin with so it baffled me as to how they knew how to do the job required of them to begin with. Scottish Sargent Duncan Blair shows Will the ropes and the two grow closer as the story progresses.
I was saddened by the fact that a war was needed at all and the fact that Will was pulled away by a tragedy causing the two men to not be able to see one another until many years later. Though this was a good story, I found it hard to believe that in the time period these two were in that they could be together without being discovered. It just did not seem real to me.
It was an o.k. read.
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