The Lady of the Lamps

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>A broken vow. A broken soldier. A broken heart.</em></strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>On her first ever visit to Vauxhall Gardens Lady Beatrix Chichester is enchanted by the magical lights. She dances with a dashing young man who promises to call on her as soon as she's officially out in society.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Five years later one dead fiancé and with offers of marriage from men old enough to be her grandfather Lady Beatrix returns to the gardens hoping they can make her feel some of the magic she felt back then when everything seemed possible.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Spencer Clement now the Marquess of Leighton has returned from the war in France physically whole but mentally scarred from the horrors he has witnessed. Vauxhall Gardens seem a world away from the battlefields he has been living in but his friends persuade him to join them one night.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>When he and Lady Beatrix end up dancing under the incredible light of a thousand lamps he feels something for the first time in years-but then the fireworks begin and the horrors of the guns are at the forefront of his mind.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Will he ever find his lady of the lamps again? And will she be able and willing to fix this broken soldier?</em></strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Tropes / Themes:</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>✅ Second Chance Romance</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>✅ Wounded Hero</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>✅ War Veteran Returns Home</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>✅ Missed Connection</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>✅ Slow Burn Romance</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>✅ Hero with PTSD</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>✅ Ballroom/Garden Party Setting</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>✅ Hope and Healing</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>✅ Light/Dark Symbolism</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>✅ Gentle resilient heroine</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><u>Vows in Vauxhall Gardens</u></strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Book 1: The Lady of the Lamps</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Book 2: Entertaining the Earl</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Book 3: A Vow from a Viscount</span></p><p></p>