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"What had it all been for, they asked themselves. Why had thousands died by sword, sickness and extremes of weather? For what reason had boys agonized and been sundered only yesterday?...There was no victory, no glory in this! Why had they come?"

"It was time for the 43rd Light Dragoons to forget the glory and count the cost of their journey to war."

Can Mary and Rowan survive the sandstorm?

"Socially so impossibly far apart, emotionally separated by his marriage, divided by educational barriers of immense proportions... Nothing else was important; no other person existed. Mary knew their time was running out and wanted this moment to equal the rest of the life she would never live.

"I'll not give Daubnay the satisfaction of keeping one of his precious toy regiment from facing bullets that might spoil his...pretty uniform."

"But he was not so enchanted that he did not recognize very well what she was doing to him, and he endured the public sniggers and her precociousness because he suspected she was putting him to the test...If he wanted her he had to win her against all odds, and he them them all on, certain she was his only means of forgetting something he could never bring himself to tell another living soul."

"In that December of 1853 his reputation as one of the most valiant officers in the service of Queen Victoria was undeniable, but in the breasts of his fellows burnt the secret desire to see the regimental daredevil brought to his knees. In the breasts of the fair sex burnt the same desire, except that they wished him to be brought to only one knee-at their feet, declaring his unquenchable passionate devotion."