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In a defeated town in northern Portugal in 1809, Suzette de Bertille, daughter of a French colonel, finds a starving youth, wolf-like, with strange golden eyes and a thousand-mile stare. Suzette alone recognizes what ails the young man she believes to be a Portuguese prisoner of war, and she is determined to help him. Her ""Wolf"", British Lieutenant Ranulf Haldane, is on the trail of the French troopers who slaughtered his men as they lay wounded, but what happened to him has left unable to eat until a young woman finds him and shows him how to survive. Friendship deepens into love, but Ranulf has scores to settle, and Suzette's loyalty must be to her own side. Saving Wolf is a historical romance and adventure tale that explores themes of loyalty to nation and family, honour and the mental toll a war takes on both combatants and civilians. Suzette and Ranulf face impossible odds, and they must change and grow before they find their way to happiness.

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D.S. Weber was born and raised in Denmark but has lived most of her adult life in Alberta, Canada.An early and avid reader, she tore through Dickens, Dumas, Stevenson and Marryat as a child and never lost her love of romantic adventure. She is literate in four languages, an amateur historian and a student of the poetry of the Romantics.Her novels are set in the late Georgian era, a time of war, social injustice and instability, but also a time of new ideas, reforms and progress. It was a time when women of the gentry must marry since they could not work. It is no wonder that marriage became a matter of the greatest interest and importance. D.S. Weber writes about couples finding love in difficult times. Her characters remain true to the worldview of their time but find ways to meet their goals and aspirations in spite of the limitations of their society.Spinning wool and silk into fine yarn is a hobby for D.S. Weber. Spinning yarns of romance and adventure is a passion. Ploughing through a history book or reading a French officer's memoirs of the Peninsular War, D.S. Weber finds the research part of writing historical romance endlessly fascinating.

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