Young women wearing pastel muslin and carrying lacy, white parasols moved indolently among young men in their light suits and straw hats. Rowena sat alone on a low rock wall watching her friends, also known as the Cunning Coterie, enjoying the impromptu picnic out of sight from the watchful eyes of society’s gossiping matrons. In July, the Suffolk countryside shone with a tapestry of different greens, spotted generously with yellow and pink flowers in the grass.

The musical notes of a nearby stream were accompanied by the occasional burst of her friends’ laughter. Summerset Abbey: Spring Awakening chapterįor anyone else, this place would have fostered a sense of serenity if not pure bliss, but Rowena Buxton felt nothing but a sad sort of detachment. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. Has she irreparably damaged their loving bond of trust? But when Andrew enlists, everything that Pru cherishes is at risk-and she crosses a line attempting to protect him. And on the battlefields of France, she will learn the true meaning of love and sacrifice.Īfter a stinging betrayal at Summerset Abbey, Prudence has found love and contentment in working-class Camden Town as Mrs. Kit Kittredge is the one man who understands and adores Victoria’s fiery spirit-but she rebuffs her best friend’s offer of marriage time and again, choosing to join the war effort as a volunteer nurse. The defiant suffragette raises eyebrows once again by living on her own in London as a lady bachelor. Accepting a daring mission transporting British planes, she encounters the man whose touch sent her reeling-and whose return into her life may have disastrous consequences for her and Sebastian’s future. Rowena loves her kind, handsome fiancé, but memories of a dangerously passionate affair with a dashing flier still stir her heart. The female pilot’s upcoming wedding to Sebastian Billingsly is the talk of society. In a changing world, they soon find that only one thing is certain: none of them will ever be the same. The laughter of summer lawn parties fades for the men and women of Summerset Abbey, as the rumble of cannon-fire sweeps across Europe.

Spring Awakening by T.J. Brown