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A welcome reissue of this wartime classic from the author of Birdy.During WW II, a dying American soldier, William Wiley, and his German captor, Wilhelm Klug, are miraculously rescued by a fox endowed with extraordinary powers, Franky Furbo.For William, the experience is indisputably true but when he discovers later that neither his wife nor children believe in Franky, he endures a crisis of faith and searches desperately for the truth.Franky Furbo is a modern fable with a remarkable twist, quite unlike anything Wharton wrote before or since.

A stirring Second World War tale of love and loss set in Yorkshire from the author of The Linden Walk and A Scent of Lavender.Set during World War 2, TURN LEFT AT THE DAFFODILS tells two love stories – those of Nan and Carrie.Nan meets Charles, a gauche, young airman at a dance. Despite his stammer and inability to dance, Nan is captivated by her first romance, and takes him under her wing. When Nan learns that Charles is from the landed gentry, she refuses his offer of marriage fearing that their difference in social status will ruin their chances of happiness. But it is the war itself which seems to end any hope for them when Charles is reported missing in action, believed killed, in the skies over Germany.Carrie starts a passionate affair following a chance encounter with Todd Coverdale on a railway platform in Lincoln. When Carrie finds herself alone and pregnant after Todd disappears without explanation, her only option is to leave the ATS and move to Daffy Cottage, the home Todd inherited from his Aunt.Will either woman find happiness after being left alone at a time of war, loneliness and difficult decisions?

As war blazes across Europe, three couples find a love that is powerful enough to overcome all the odds…A KISS GOODBYE – 1914As war looms, genteel Flora’s ancestral home is turned into a hospital, where she meets dashing revolutionary Geraint, whose passionate, sizzling kiss has her praying for this soldier’s safe return!DEAREST SYLVIE – 1916Rugged British soldier Robbie had one hedonistic night in Paris with beautiful French Sylvie. But, as all Europe is torn apart, can these star-crossed lovers forge a lasting bond through their letters?FOREVER WITH ME – 1918Nurse Sheila is shocked to discover that the French surgeon she woke beside after Armistice Day is her new employer! Fighting for his love will be the bravest thing she’s ever had to do…A heart-wrenching new anthology from powerfully emotional author Marguerite Kaye

A present-day love story which springs from a tragic wartime romance …It is the 1990s. Cassie Johns is a young, lovely writer on the threshold of success after a less-than-silver-spooned girlhood. Driving through the glorious countryside to a fancy-dress party in the Vale of Boland, she gives a lift to a mysteriously attractive young man wearing the uniform of an RAF pilot: ready for the party Cassie assumes. But in the evening there is no sign of the airman.Cassie – hitherto rational, sceptical, a woman of her times – becomes obsessed by Jack Hunter, a pilot whose plane crashed in 1944, but whose long-ago love for a girl at Deer’s Leap makes him unable to rest in peace. Cassie’s love for the dead hero takes her into an unknown war-torn past, where old passion burns and becomes entwined with new.

Rediscover this moving fan-favorite tale of finding a second chance at happiness from New York Times bestselling author Lindsay McKennaCaptain Kyle Anderson can’t believe his buddy Mike is tying the knot. And when Mike, a fellow captain in the US Air Force, asks Kyle to be his best man, of course Kyle says yes. When he flies home from Thailand, where his squadron is based, Kyle finally gets to meet the woman his friend has been talking about for a year. But what he never expected is for Gale Remington to be so…alluring. And he certainly isn’t prepared for the sparks that fly between them.Gale is beyond happy to be marrying Mike. So why, when she meets his best man, Kyle, does her heart beat a little quicker, her breath come a little faster? He’s her fiancé’s best friend—nothing can happen between them. But nothing is certain in the theater of war, and fate may have other plans for her and Kyle.