The Rose and the Sword — Katherine Sargent

She had married too young -- too quickly. Now she had fallen in love -- with her husband's best friend... Against the pageantry and tragedy of the Crimean War, this spellbinding novel of love and death tells the dramatic story of a beautiful woman and forbidden passion. Voyaging from England to war-torn land, witnessing the Charge of the Light Brigade, working at the revolutionary hospital set up by Florence Nightingale, Amanda appeared the model officer's wife. But her heart was torn -- between duty to the war and her husband and desperate devotion to Lieutenant Nat Hartley, a man she shouldn't love, a man who aroused passions she couldn't deny...