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Love in the meadows

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Reads 3,551
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Parts 117
Time 31h 49m

When seventeen year old Nellie green is orphaned by the ongoing war she was placed in an orphanage, her remaining brother still missing in action Nellie was alone and scared until she was sent for by her fathers life long friend Charlie Lockwood. Leaving the upperclass inner city of Westtown on the steam train she made her way to her father's childhood home of the country village of Leyway. Nellie is apprehensive at first being thrown from high society to life she was accustomed to into an orphanage in the poor part of town and now into farm life in the countryside. She soon comes to realise much of which she had been taught is no longer relevant and that she has much to learn. 

Nellie finds friendship in Jackson the eldest of the three Lockwood boys, a shy gentle farm boy who is drawn to Nellies innocent nature and her wonderment in the world around her. can he teach her about the one thing she was never taught about, the one thing she never thought she'd be allowed to have, love. Having lived a life lacking in affection Nellie is confused by her new friend who quickly comes to realise that the sweet young girl he once knew as a young child was now a beautiful young woman who has stolen his heart. But when Jackson discovers the harsh truth of the high society in which Nellie was bought up in, Will he be able to save her from the wicked clutches of the monsters that disguise themselves as men? Is their love doomed to end in tragedy before it even begins? Will he be able to make her understand love before it's too late? Can he change the fate she was born into or will the class divide between them prove too much? 

A story set in a fictional historical time and place, of finding family, friendship, love and a place where you belong during war. Will love win against the odds or will it be lost forever?

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