The Captain's Lady — Geraldine Ryan-Lush

He hugged her quickly, intensely, and for a moment it seemed like months ago and a crisp December night, the night they met. She watched him walk through the revolving doors, the proud, straight manliness of him, that fearless, warrior-like set of his shoulders that caused always people to take a second glance, aware that he was somehow different than the others. But she alone knew him, knew every fibre of his body, soul, and mind. She imagined him walking towards the security check, greeting his mates casually, catching up, while his heart was breaking inside of him, to board planes to London, Stockholm, Tallinn, his route to home. She stayed standing there. Then, for a few irrational seconds, a force greater than she was catapulted her forward, to want to race across the parking lot, rush inside and scream out "Wait Don't go Come back Come back " What was she doing He was going to the other side of the world. She may never see him again. She was letting him go, the love of her life. Victoria would tell her she was crazy, letting him go like that. All the women of ages past, down through the centuries, who had loved with the raw passion she had felt for this beautiful man, would tell her she was crazy, letting loose the love of her life on an unforgiving, vulturous world. And there were times that day she sensed he wanted her to say "Don't go," and he would have stayed, making the sacrifices, making the necessary partings with his country, for her, for love, just like that. But merciful rationality returned, like the now shifting wind, and she knew she had no regrets at the decision she had made. She got back into her car, and swung it out through the maze, this time nearly blinded by the tears of Goodbye, of uncertainty, as the hum of jet engines refueling, and planes on their final descent from distant locales made their celebratory landings in the City of Legends at last.

THEY MET. THEY LOVED. THEY PARTED. WILL THEY EVER MEET AGAIN. FOR ALL THOSE WHO HAVE LOVED AND LOST, AND DARED TO DREAM AGAIN. A SEARING NOVEL OF PASSION AND FORBIDDEN LOVE SET AGAINST THE WILDS OF NEWFOUNDLAND, THE GLAMOUR OF STOCKHOLM, AND THE OLD-WORLD BALTIC STATES FROM AN AWARD-WINNING, BESTSELLING AUTHOR COMES A STORY OF ECSTASY AND PROMISE, BETRAYAL AND CHOICE