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Instead, she chooses option three and travels across  the Atlantic, determined to nurse her brother back to health. But after a  week of searching, she finds not her brother but his best friend, the  handsome officer Edward Rokesby. He's unconscious and in desperate need  of her care, and Cecilia vows that she will save this soldier's life,  even if staying by his side means telling one little lie . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eI told everyone I was your wife\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eWhen  Edward comes to, he's more than a little confused. The blow to his head  knocked out six months of his memory, but surely he would recall  getting \u003ci\u003emarried\u003c\/i\u003e. He knows who Cecilia Harcourt is - even if he does  not recall her face - and with everyone calling her his wife, he decides  it must be true, even though he'd always assumed he'd marry his neighbor  back in England.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eIf only it were true . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eCecilia  risks her entire future by giving herself - completely - to the man she  loves. 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