Out with Lanterns

<p><strong>A new voice for historical romance fans Hillary Bowen's book takes readers out of the Regency ballrooms and into the 20th century English countryside. Amidst the challenges of the wartime home front and the fight for equality love blooms. Found family scorching chemistry and the beauty of finding your place in the world make this book a must-read.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(37 61 75 1)>A newly independent woman. A man severed from all his anchors. A love that will remake their world.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(37 61 75 1)>Somerset 1917.</strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(37 61 75 1)>Ophelia Blackwood has a choice: continue to evade a parade of her father's ill-advised suitors or seize control of her future.</strong><span style=color: rgba(37 61 75 1)> In the Women's Land Army she finds the independence she has always craved but a year into her assignment Silas Larke arrives and she is irritated to discover that he is just as intriguing and attractive as he was during their intense summer friendship years ago.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(37 61 75 1)>When the British government unexpectedly assigns recovering soldier Silas Larke to lend a hand on a local farm he finds himself thrown together with the woman he couldn't forget.</strong><span style=color: rgba(37 61 75 1)> But Ophelia has new dreams for her future none of which include marriage. Forced to examine the future he always imagined he will have to decide if love is worth changing all your plans for.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(37 61 75 1)>Ophelia knows she can't afford distraction no matter how beguiling the man but the feelings kindled during her and Silas's 1915 summer have returned as a blaze. </strong><span style=color: rgba(37 61 75 1)>Desperate to produce more for the war effort and save the farm with the people who have become her family Ophelia and Silas push against the rising tide of their attraction but Ophelia begins to wonder if they could be a force to be reckoned with together.</span></p>