Out with Lanterns

A new voice for historical romance fans, Hillary Bowen's book takes readers out of the Regency ballrooms and into the 20th century English countryside. Amidst the challenges of the wartime home front and the fight for equality, love blooms. Found family, scorching chemistry, and the beauty of finding your place in the world make this book a must-read.

A newly independent woman. A man severed from all his anchors. A love that will remake their world.

Somerset, 1917.

Ophelia Blackwood has a choice: continue to evade a parade of her father's ill-advised suitors, or seize control of her future. In the Women's Land Army, she finds the independence she has always craved, but a year into her assignment, Silas Larke arrives, and she is irritated to discover that he is just as intriguing and attractive as he was during their intense summer friendship, years ago.

When the British government unexpectedly assigns recovering soldier Silas Larke to lend a hand on a local farm, he finds himself thrown together with the woman he couldn't forget. But Ophelia has new dreams for her future, none of which include marriage. Forced to examine the future he always imagined, he will have to decide if love is worth changing all your plans for.

Ophelia knows she can't afford distraction, no matter how beguiling the man, but the feelings kindled during her and Silas's 1915 summer have returned as a blaze. Desperate to produce more for the war effort and save the farm with the people who have become her family, Ophelia and Silas push against the rising tide of their attraction, but Ophelia begins to wonder if they could be a force to be reckoned with, together.