Book description
A young Scotsman and a Cavalry Officer embark on a forbidden love
affair as the winds of war threaten to tear them apart. When Robert
Alexander Macdonald locks eyes with Captain Charles Wentworth at a
social gathering in London, it's not long before they are also locking
lips and engaging in a covert love affair. After an idyllic time spent
together in a cottage on the windswept cliffs of Cornwall Charles
receives orders to report for combat duty. Britain and France are at war
with Russia, and Charles, an Officer with the 11th Hussars finds himself
part of the ill-fated Charge of the Light Brigade, a military disaster
that outraged the British population. Robert, on hearing that Charles is
missing, goes in search of him, but finds only the shell of the man he
loves, a man damaged in body and mind, with no memory of his family or
loved ones. Faced with the possibility of Charles never again knowing
what he and Robert meant to one another, Robert decides to dedicate
himself to Charles' full recovery. Going against all medical advice,
Robert removes Charles from the hospital and takes him back to Cornwall
in the hope that the familiar surroundings of his old home will bring
back some latent memory to his lover's mind. A hope, that as time goes
by, becomes less and less of a possiblity. _x000D_ J. P Bowie was born
in Scotland and toured British theatres in numerous musical shows
including Stephen Sondheim's Company. Emigrated to the States and worked
in Las Vegas, Nevada for the magicians Siegfried and Roy as their Head
of Wardrobe at the Mirage Hotel. Currently living in Henderson, Nevada.
