Merry Belles

FOREVER HOLD YOUR PEACE

BY RUE ALLYN

A Regency Era Christmas Short Story

Home from the wars, Captain Prescott Drake is shocked to learn that his fiancée plans to wed someone else. Can he reach her in time to prevent the nuptials? Will she want him, or has their treasured love died the slow death he nearly suffered in a French prison?

Desperate and believing the man she loved is dead, Miss Elizabeth Feddleston seeks rescue in the form of marriage to a kind friend. He knows she does not love him now but has hopes that once she has mourned the man who first won her heart that she will turn to him.

Three friends, one wedding and the storm of the century. Will the right couple triumph or will nature put love to death?