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    Written in My Heart
    Written in My Heart
    Written in My Heart
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    Written in My Heart

    By Caroline Linden

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    For three years Jane Barton has written a letter every week to Sgt. Ethan Campbell, her dearest childhood friend...and the man she’s secretly loved for ages. For three years, Ethan has relied on Jane’s letters to keep him sane through the war. But now the war is over, and he’s desperate to discover if the girl he left behind is really the woman he can’t live without...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCaroline Linden
    Release dateNov 9, 2013
    ISBN9781310254956
    Written in My Heart
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    Caroline Linden

    Caroline Linden knew from an early age she was a reader, not a writer. She earned a math degree from Harvard University and wrote computer code before turning to fiction. Her books have won the Daphne du Maurier Award, the NJRW Golden Leaf Award, and RWA’s RITA® Award, and have been translated into seventeen languages around the world. She lives in New England with her family. Find her online at www.CarolineLinden.com.

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    • 3/5
      Very sweet and lovely but too short. I would have loved too read more about Jane and Ethan and would have hoped to see some of their letters.
    • 5/5
      wouldve liked it as multichapter but ugh i love this story

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    Written in My Heart - Caroline Linden

    Written in My Heart

    WRITTEN IN MY HEART

    CAROLINE LINDEN

    Caroline Linden

    This is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events, locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

    Copyright © 2014 P. F. Belsley

    Cover © 2020 Erin Dameron-Hill of EDHGraphics

    All rights reserved.

    No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

    CONTENTS

    Three long years…

    Chapter 1

    Chapter 2

    Chapter 3

    Chapter 4

    Chapter 5

    Afterword

    About the Author

    Also by Caroline Linden

    THREE LONG YEARS…

    For three years Jane Barton has written a letter every week to Sgt. Ethan Campbell, her dearest childhood friend…and the man she’s secretly loved for ages.

    For three years, Ethan has relied on Jane’s letters to keep him sane through the war. But now the war is over, and he’s desperate to discover if the girl he left behind is really the woman he can’t live without…

    1

    1815

    Reports of the great victory reached London on Wednesday, when Major Percy laid a trio of captured French eagles at the Prince Regent’s feet. The official dispatch appeared in the London Gazette as an Extraordinary edition on Thursday. Ned Tompkins, the banker’s clerk, brought copies with him from London the next day. On Saturday the whole village of Caxby-on-Avon gathered to hear it read aloud, to many huzzahs for the triumph near the town of Waterloo, in Belgium. Services on Sunday were celebratory, in joy at Napoleon’s resounding defeat, but solemn, as if knowing the joy must soon be overshadowed by the news of who had fallen in the battle.

    On Monday morning Jane Barton arrived at Mrs. Lynch’s dressmaking shop early. She let herself in with a word of greeting to her employer and went up the stairs to the workroom, Puck trotting at her heels as usual. She hung up her shawl and bonnet, and moved her chair from its prime position by the sunny back windows to a place near the front window overlooking the street. Puck stood by the hearth for a moment, his head cocked, then came to sniff the floor near the moved chair.

    Mrs. Lynch noticed at once. She stopped short when she came up the stairs with the work for the day, but she said nothing, just brought the sketches for the riding habit Mrs. Bellows had ordered the previous day over to the wide worktable. Tamsin, the other seamstress, came up a few minutes later, and aside from an indrawn breath, also made no comment. Millie, the young apprentice, wasn’t so tactful when she bounded

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