Wild Youth, Volume 2.
A woman emerges from a night on the open prairie with a man not her husband, and nothing in her world will ever be the same. Louise has spent years caged by Joel Mazarine's cold tyranny, but the harrowing hours she shared with Orlando have awakened something fierce within her: a hunger for life, for love, for freedom. Now she must return to the house of her oppressor and face the wrath she knows is coming, while Orlando circles like a protector determined to shield her from further harm. The prairie has tested them both, and they have proven victorious, but the true battle lies ahead in the drawing rooms and gossiping parlors of a society that demands women's obedience and men's dominance. Gilbert Parker constructs a vivid drama of desire suppressed and courage kindled, where love becomes both rebellion and salvation. For readers who savor the passionate romances of the early 20th century, where social constraint makes every stolen glance and trembling touch feel dangerous and true.
