Carole Matthews is one of the bestselling women's fiction writers around. Romance & Sagas
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Abel Lackland and his family were more than startled when his quiet, spinster daughter Martha announced her intention of going to the Crimea to work among the British soldiers and their families. Money is needed for food and medicines, but the family soon rallies round. Thanks to Lydia - still queen of the Haymarket theatre, Oliver and his Supper Rooms and Gideon in the City - benefit nights and charity balls soon raise enough to send Martha to Scutari.There she not only encounters the indomitable Miss Nightingale, but also Alexander Laurence, a surgeon she had first met in a London ballroom but grows to love amidst the horrors of war.
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