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Sweet Rogue of Mine

av Shana Galen

Serier: The Survivors (9)

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A sharpshooter who's lost his sight...

When a stray pistol ball from the battlefield took Nash's sight, it also took his entire identity. He's retreated to his father's county home to lick his wounds, but his drinking and isolation have only made things worse. When Nash's father, a powerful earl, threatens to send Nash to an asylum, his former brothers-in-arms call in one of their own to set Nash back on the right course. Nash fears he's fallen too far and perhaps ending it all is the best solution. Until he encounters a woman in the garden singing a bawdy tune at the top of her lungs.

An outcast who sees too much...

Prudence Howard has traveled the world with her missionary parents. But after the scandal she caused in Cairo, they've foisted her on a vicar in the small town of Milcroft and sailed to the Far East to evangelize without her. Pru doesn't mean to cause trouble; it's just that being good is so very hard. When she meets Nash Pope, she's instantly intrigued. He might be hot-tempered, but he's handsome and unusual and arouses her interest and passion like no one she's ever met. He might not know he needs or even wants her help, but Pru has a plan to save him.

Together they glimpse a brighter future.

Nash is bewildered by the unconventional woman who keeps turning up on his doorstep. She tries to teach him night writing, claims a feral peacock is a momentous sign, and makes his toes curl when she kisses him. She refuses to give up on him. But though Nash finds it easy to believe in Pru, can he ever trust himself again?

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Series: The Survivors #9
Publication Date: 2/9/21

I have loved Shana Galen’s books since her very first one. She writes strong, complex characters – both male and female – along with compelling stories usually filled with an abundance of wit, romance, and excitement. In this story, she explores the after effects of the Peninsular Wars on one soldier who was wounded and lost his sight. Her descriptions of Melancholia and what is today known as PTSD make you feel those things, the fear, the dread, the despair, the anguish, right along with Nash.

Nash Pope is the youngest son of an earl and a survivor of the Peninsular Wars. Nash is the most gifted sharpshooter England has ever seen – or at least he was. Now, he is a broken man, living in isolation, and expecting his father to have him hauled off to an asylum at any moment. He can’t help it. The lives he took, the mistakes he made, haunt him constantly and threaten to drag him down into a deep, dark abyss and maybe never let him out. Any unexpected noise, any unexpected approach, throws him right back into those horrific scenes from the war with the enemy approaching from all sides. He lives all alone in a dark world where the slightest thing causes fear and an immediate defensive reaction from him. He even shot one of his friends a few months ago when the friend unexpectedly arrived at his door (The Highlanders Excellent Adventure).

Nash served as part of a troop that was deemed to be expendable. The elite troop was made up of thirty younger sons of the nobility who were assigned to the most dangerous and deadly missions in the war. Only twelve returned and they became known as Draven’s Dozen. Those twelve men all had survivor’s guilt of one sort or another and all of them had seen and done things that would curl the toes of most men. Those men, those survivors, are still looking out for each other even after the wars have ended. They know Nash is on the cusp of being confined and send one of their own, Rowden Payne to intervene and begin to straighten Nash up. Rowden is the perfect one to begin to put Nash on the road toward some normalcy in his life. Rowden is huge, brusque, no-nonsense, and just what Nash needs.

Prudence Howard – you are going to LOVE her – is the twenty-three-year-old daughter of zealot missionaries. Because of an unfortunate incident in Cairo, her parents have dumped her off in the care of Vicar Higginbotham, in the village of Milcroft. Pru is sunny, happy, kind, patient, non-judgmental, calm, and … surprising. Pru is definitely NOT your typical daughter of missionaries – she tries very, very hard to be good, she’s just not very good at being good. If she thinks it – she says it. If she feels it, she usually says it. She’s very much Polyanna and everybody who meets her loves her – well, except maybe her parents. Pru’s whole outlook on life and what is around her is different than most – more nuanced, more focused. Where one person would see a grassy field, Pru sees and delights in the different colors of the grasses, the flowers that are there, the small animals. Pru loves to walk through the countryside when she can escape the vicarage and one day while walking – and singing a bawdy tune at the top of her lungs – she sees a young handsome man who is stuck in the mud and trying to get up the embankment. Of course, Pru being Pru, she offers her assistance. When he is short and brusque with her, she just ignores it and continues on with trying to help him. Their relationship goes in much that same manner until – surprise – they are in love.

I loved watching Nash begin to come to terms with his blindness and his PTSD – and to learn to deal with them. The help he needed was a long time in coming, but when it arrived, it was exactly the right help. Maybe it was even the right time for that help as well, because he probably wouldn’t have been ready for it earlier. Pru, Rowden, and Nash’s new valet, Clopdon, are exactly who he needed in his life and I love how he learned to accept that help without resentment.

After the last book, I didn’t see how this author was going to redeem Nash. Not only did she redeem him, she made him one of the best heroes. We get to see Nash go from contemplating suicide to his HEA because of the lovely, lovely people around him – and his genuine desire to come back to the land of the living.

I definitely recommend this book – and all of the other books in the series. I hope you’ll read it and enjoy it as much as I did. Since we saw so much of Rowden in this book, I’m thinking he might just get the feature role in the next book. Since I really liked him, I can’t wait.

I voluntarily read and reviewed an Advanced Reader Copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own. ( )
  BarbaraRogers | Jan 26, 2021 |
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Fiction. Romance. Historical Fiction. HTML:

A sharpshooter who's lost his sight...

When a stray pistol ball from the battlefield took Nash's sight, it also took his entire identity. He's retreated to his father's county home to lick his wounds, but his drinking and isolation have only made things worse. When Nash's father, a powerful earl, threatens to send Nash to an asylum, his former brothers-in-arms call in one of their own to set Nash back on the right course. Nash fears he's fallen too far and perhaps ending it all is the best solution. Until he encounters a woman in the garden singing a bawdy tune at the top of her lungs.

An outcast who sees too much...

Prudence Howard has traveled the world with her missionary parents. But after the scandal she caused in Cairo, they've foisted her on a vicar in the small town of Milcroft and sailed to the Far East to evangelize without her. Pru doesn't mean to cause trouble; it's just that being good is so very hard. When she meets Nash Pope, she's instantly intrigued. He might be hot-tempered, but he's handsome and unusual and arouses her interest and passion like no one she's ever met. He might not know he needs or even wants her help, but Pru has a plan to save him.

Together they glimpse a brighter future.

Nash is bewildered by the unconventional woman who keeps turning up on his doorstep. She tries to teach him night writing, claims a feral peacock is a momentous sign, and makes his toes curl when she kisses him. She refuses to give up on him. But though Nash finds it easy to believe in Pru, can he ever trust himself again?

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