{"id":33303,"date":"2026-08-19T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.suzilove.com\/?p=33303"},"modified":"2026-08-20T08:39:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T22:39:47","slug":"want-a-hot-military-regency-romance-for-the-holidays-love-after-waterloo-christmas-historicaleroticromance-militaryromance-regencyromance-readaregency-waterloo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suzilove.com\/?p=33303","title":{"rendered":"Book Hooks: Lady Melton and the Captain held vastly different views on women\u2019s roles. #Waterloo #regencyromance #historicalromance #BookHook"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Blurb:<\/strong> Love After Waterloo: Lady Melton and her son are forced to join antagonistic Captain Belling and the last group of wounded British soldiers evacuating Waterloo and traveling back to London. https:\/\/books2read.com\/suziloveLAW<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book Hook:<\/strong> Lady Melton and the Captain held vastly different views on women\u2019s roles, she instinctively knew he would convey them safely to English shores. Her son liked him, so she\u2019d make allowances for the Captain\u2019s abrasive manner and assume that his stiffness was due to the stress of conveying a party of injured men, a lady, and a child to London. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCaptain, despite you not wanting me to tend to your own wounds, I shall still offer to help your soldiers. Changing their bandages, massaging their limbs, and that sort of thing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGood grief. You\u2019re telling me that your brothers allowed you to massage men\u2019s arms and legs?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her amenable attitude towards him dissipated faster than mist on a sunny morning. \u201cYes, Captain.\u201d She shifted her sleepy son to her other hip. \u201cBrendon is a knowledgeable physician, and he not only allowed<\/em> me to massage the men\u2019s painful limbs, but he actively encouraged it.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNot under my command, you won\u2019t.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPerhaps each soldier should decide for himself. I\u2019m sure they would welcome any relief, even if a mere woman offers the only available treatment. Massaging is known to stimulate blood flow which means a limb doesn\u2019t atrophy while a wound is healing. Faster healing means less time in pain.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHumph. We\u2019re British soldiers. Taught to keep a stiff upper lip and suffer in silence.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She scowled. \u201cAre you making a jest? Because I didn\u2019t picture you as capable of levity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He snorted. \u201cYes, sorry. My pathetic attempt at a joke fell flat. I\u2019m not capable of true levity at the moment. Not after spending days searching for friends, or what was left of them, and retrieving valuables and letters before the battlefield pickers stole items I would rather see returned to their loved ones.\u201d He shook his head. \u201cAnd why did our men charge over those hills and die?\u201d He pointed towards the battleground where thousands of soldiers had been either slaughtered outright, or had passed their last hours in agony. \u201cSo that our fat and complacent Regent can congratulate himself on a brilliant battle. So Wellington can be proclaimed Britain\u2019s greatest war hero.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anne winced. Gabe had reached his limit, and with good reason. His grief was palpable and she was back to feeling sorry for the wretched man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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