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The Theodosia Sword #2
Only For Her Honor
*****Author's Note*****
Only For Her Honor is a novella that was previously offered as part of the Scandal's Daughters collection. Currently, it can also be found as part of the Theodosia Sword box-set.
Only For Her Honor
A wounded soldier:
When Captain Lucas Rayne returned from fighting Boney’s forces, he was a shell of a man. A recluse who doesn't leave his family's estate, he's content to shut himself away. Until he meets Eve...
A woman alone in the world:
Eve Ormond spent most of her life following the drum alongside her late father. When his shameful actions bring death and pain to English soldiers, Eve is forced back to England, an outcast. With no family or marital prospects she needs employment and finds it in Captain Lucas Rayne's home. A man whose life was ruined by her father, Eve has no place inside his household. With few options available, however, Eve takes the post. What she never anticipates is how with their every meeting, this honorable, hurting soldier slips inside her heart.
The Secrets Between Them:
The more time Lucas spends with Eve, he remembers what it is to be alive and he lets the walls protecting his heart down. When the secrets between them come to light will their love be enough? Or are they two destined for heartbreak?
Only For Her Honor is a novella that was previously offered as part of the Scandal's Daughters collection. Currently, it can also be found as part of the Theodosia Sword box-set.
Only For Her Honor
A wounded soldier:
When Captain Lucas Rayne returned from fighting Boney’s forces, he was a shell of a man. A recluse who doesn't leave his family's estate, he's content to shut himself away. Until he meets Eve...
A woman alone in the world:
Eve Ormond spent most of her life following the drum alongside her late father. When his shameful actions bring death and pain to English soldiers, Eve is forced back to England, an outcast. With no family or marital prospects she needs employment and finds it in Captain Lucas Rayne's home. A man whose life was ruined by her father, Eve has no place inside his household. With few options available, however, Eve takes the post. What she never anticipates is how with their every meeting, this honorable, hurting soldier slips inside her heart.
The Secrets Between Them:
The more time Lucas spends with Eve, he remembers what it is to be alive and he lets the walls protecting his heart down. When the secrets between them come to light will their love be enough? Or are they two destined for heartbreak?
131 pages, Kindle Edition
First published May 19, 2017
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About the author
Christi Caldwell
137 books2,560 followersUSA TODAY Bestselling author CHRISTI CALDWELL blames Judith McNaught's "Whitney, My Love!" for luring her into the world of historical romance. While sitting in her graduate school apartment at the University of Connecticut, Christi decided to set aside her notes and pick up her laptop to try her hand at romance. She believes the most perfect heroes and heroines have imperfections, and she rather enjoys torturing them before crafting them a well deserved happily ever after!
Christi makes her home in Charlotte, North Carolina where she spends her time writing her own enchanting historical romances, and baking surprisingly good cakes (almost 2 years in lockdown will do that) with her courageous son and twin daughters, each who with their daily antics provides limitless source material.
Christi makes her home in Charlotte, North Carolina where she spends her time writing her own enchanting historical romances, and baking surprisingly good cakes (almost 2 years in lockdown will do that) with her courageous son and twin daughters, each who with their daily antics provides limitless source material.
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July 12, 2017
A man fighting demons and a woman hiding from the sins of a father.
Captain Lucas Rayne is a bear of a man. His disposition has run staff away and made his family wary. Fighting internal and external scars Lucas prefers a solitary life. Until one woman enters who refuses to be cowed. Will this woman bring Lucas back to the land of the living or push him further away when he learns her secrets?
Eve Ormond spent most of her life following her father through the battlefields. Now she spends her life looking for employment and hoping her employer doesn’t find out who her father is. Her current position has her face to face with a man who was deeply affected by her father’s duplicity. Can Eve help bring this man back to living before he discovers her secrets and before she loses her heart?
When someone learns Eve’s secret will she stay and fight or will she run? How will Lucas handle the truth of who Eve’s father is?
Another well written novella by the talented Christi Caldwell. Loving Lucas’ gruffness while catching glimpses of him possibly wanting more. And I admire Eve’s determination to make a life for herself despite her background and her uncertainty. Looking forward to reading more of Ms. Caldwell’s work!!
Captain Lucas Rayne is a bear of a man. His disposition has run staff away and made his family wary. Fighting internal and external scars Lucas prefers a solitary life. Until one woman enters who refuses to be cowed. Will this woman bring Lucas back to the land of the living or push him further away when he learns her secrets?
Eve Ormond spent most of her life following her father through the battlefields. Now she spends her life looking for employment and hoping her employer doesn’t find out who her father is. Her current position has her face to face with a man who was deeply affected by her father’s duplicity. Can Eve help bring this man back to living before he discovers her secrets and before she loses her heart?
When someone learns Eve’s secret will she stay and fight or will she run? How will Lucas handle the truth of who Eve’s father is?
Another well written novella by the talented Christi Caldwell. Loving Lucas’ gruffness while catching glimpses of him possibly wanting more. And I admire Eve’s determination to make a life for herself despite her background and her uncertainty. Looking forward to reading more of Ms. Caldwell’s work!!
May 21, 2017
This is the second book in the Theodosia Sword series. In this series Christi Caldwell has 3 feuding families that manages to come together through love. This story was originally part of a collection called Scandal's Daughters.
In this story, the second son of the Rayne's family has returned from war but he is suffering from PTSD and had locked himself away in his room. He's scared off servant after servant until his mother hires Mrs Nelson to tend him while the family is away in London. The only problem is that Mrs Nelson isn't who she says she is. She is Eve Ormond, the daughter of a traitor and the distant relative of the man who had started the family feud in the first place.
Christi Caldwell manages to show the pain of war with the hope of love as Eve and Lucas both try to overcome their pasts. This is a quick read and well worth the time. A Happily Ever After is always better if the couple has to fight to get there.
In this story, the second son of the Rayne's family has returned from war but he is suffering from PTSD and had locked himself away in his room. He's scared off servant after servant until his mother hires Mrs Nelson to tend him while the family is away in London. The only problem is that Mrs Nelson isn't who she says she is. She is Eve Ormond, the daughter of a traitor and the distant relative of the man who had started the family feud in the first place.
Christi Caldwell manages to show the pain of war with the hope of love as Eve and Lucas both try to overcome their pasts. This is a quick read and well worth the time. A Happily Ever After is always better if the couple has to fight to get there.
October 14, 2019
3.5 Stars
Only for Her Honor was a delightful read featuring a romance between two people thrown together after the Napoleonic War.
Captain Lucas Rayne was lucky enough to return from the war, but he is a shadow of the man he was before he left. Content with being a recluse, Lucas never leaves his family’s estate and is happy to avoid people. But then Lucas meets Eve Ormond, a woman who has taken a position in the Rayne household. Eve spent her life following the war with her father, a commander later charged with betraying the English. With few choices left, Eve ends up taking the position in the Rayne household where she slowly begins to fall for Lucas. But when the secrets they’re both keeping threaten the new love between them, they will be left with a choice to follow their hearts or face heartbreak.
Eve and Lucas’s relationship gets off to a slow start as Lucas resents Eve’s presence and Eve thinks Lucas is bad mannered and belligerent. But as the two get to know one another and learn about what the other experienced during the war, they develop a tentative friendship which quickly becomes something more. The speed at which their relationship developed did cause a few issues for me as I didn’t buy the jump to love when very little had happened between them. I did however enjoy the friendship between the two, I just wish more time had been spent on developing their romantic relationship. I also had some issues with Lucas’ behavior towards Eve and it never seemed like he sufficiently made up for being a jerk.
Overall I enjoyed Only for Her Honor and hope to pick up the next book in the series, Only for Their Love, soon.
Only for Her Honor was a delightful read featuring a romance between two people thrown together after the Napoleonic War.
Captain Lucas Rayne was lucky enough to return from the war, but he is a shadow of the man he was before he left. Content with being a recluse, Lucas never leaves his family’s estate and is happy to avoid people. But then Lucas meets Eve Ormond, a woman who has taken a position in the Rayne household. Eve spent her life following the war with her father, a commander later charged with betraying the English. With few choices left, Eve ends up taking the position in the Rayne household where she slowly begins to fall for Lucas. But when the secrets they’re both keeping threaten the new love between them, they will be left with a choice to follow their hearts or face heartbreak.
Eve and Lucas’s relationship gets off to a slow start as Lucas resents Eve’s presence and Eve thinks Lucas is bad mannered and belligerent. But as the two get to know one another and learn about what the other experienced during the war, they develop a tentative friendship which quickly becomes something more. The speed at which their relationship developed did cause a few issues for me as I didn’t buy the jump to love when very little had happened between them. I did however enjoy the friendship between the two, I just wish more time had been spent on developing their romantic relationship. I also had some issues with Lucas’ behavior towards Eve and it never seemed like he sufficiently made up for being a jerk.
Overall I enjoyed Only for Her Honor and hope to pick up the next book in the series, Only for Their Love, soon.
October 24, 2017
I enjoyed the story, but this book needed a bit of formatting. The character’s innermost thoughts weren’t indicated by any change (like italics), so it was very jarring to go from a third-person narrator to first-person thoughts and then back to the narrator with nothing to indicate those changes.
It was like reading dialogue without proper quotation marks. I was jerked out of the story every time it happened as I had to figure out that the point of view had switched. It marred what was otherwise an enjoyable read and cost this book a star in my ratings.
It was like reading dialogue without proper quotation marks. I was jerked out of the story every time it happened as I had to figure out that the point of view had switched. It marred what was otherwise an enjoyable read and cost this book a star in my ratings.
June 12, 2017
Really enjoyed it
This story was sweet and unique. It brought about many issues even tho it is a short story. Lucas is a military man that was captured by the French. A shell of a man he is haunted by the war. Eve is also haunted by the war. Her father turned traitor. She is burdened with the guilt of her father's actions. Yet she is brave and caring in the face of constant prejudices. The love story is beautiful.
This story was sweet and unique. It brought about many issues even tho it is a short story. Lucas is a military man that was captured by the French. A shell of a man he is haunted by the war. Eve is also haunted by the war. Her father turned traitor. She is burdened with the guilt of her father's actions. Yet she is brave and caring in the face of constant prejudices. The love story is beautiful.
December 18, 2023
This was originally in Scandal's Daughters Anthology but I don't remember when I read it and can't find it anyway on Goodreads or Amazon. I did find it came out in Sept, 2016. I don't remember this book at all so can't leave a review.
I can say I've read over 80 books of Christi Caldwell's so I must like her. 😊
I can say I've read over 80 books of Christi Caldwell's so I must like her. 😊
June 23, 2023
Two people impacted by the same war help each other by their commonality. Aidan displays his self focus and familial historical indignation with little care once again on how his actions hurt his siblings n hopefully gets a chance to experience it personally without losing out on his chance at love
May 23, 2017
Short but satisfying
This was a lovely little story didn't take long I had a lot packed in kind of racy which is what I like I would recommend this I like all her books
This was a lovely little story didn't take long I had a lot packed in kind of racy which is what I like I would recommend this I like all her books
August 18, 2017
Wonderful Story
This is the second book about the sword. I enjoyed both and am ready to read the third. My only thought is wish it was longer.
This is the second book about the sword. I enjoyed both and am ready to read the third. My only thought is wish it was longer.
May 27, 2018
Excellent!
It is a wonderful story, it held my interest so much l could hardly put it down. But it was to short. Loved it!
It is a wonderful story, it held my interest so much l could hardly put it down. But it was to short. Loved it!
October 12, 2020
Very well written, sweet and keeps your attention. I was a little disappointed there were no hot scenes though.
June 24, 2021
2.5 magical little stars
January 15, 2025
Enjoyable short read.. little dark but fine
February 2, 2019
Captain Lucas Rayne- returned from fighting Boney’s forces, he was a shell of a man, a recluse.
Eve- is forced back to England, an outcast. With no family or marital prospects she needs employment and finds it in Captain Lucas Rayne's home, whose life was ruined by her father.
Wonderful story and HEA
Eve- is forced back to England, an outcast. With no family or marital prospects she needs employment and finds it in Captain Lucas Rayne's home, whose life was ruined by her father.
Wonderful story and HEA
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September 6, 2018Taking this author off my TBR list. She has great ideas but just doesn't compile them in a way that speaks to me.
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