The Return

Ten years is a long time to be away from home, when you leave as a boy and return a man.

In 1790, Lord John Latham, the fifteen-year-old second son of a marquis, sailed to the West Indies. There he lived a very different life from the privileged one left behind. He became the manager of the family's sugarcane plantation. He also discovered boxing.

The demands of the plantation, and the brutality of the boxing ring, helped shape the brash, over-confident boy into a thoughtful, confident young man.

When Latham returned to England in 1800, his privileged life was once again thrust upon him--a life at odds with his formative years. and is complicated still further by the reappearance of Isobel.

Returned, it is a world in which Lord John Latham must decide if he can remain.

Marjorie Gilbert is author of three historical novels set England, and one set in past and present Portland, Maine. The first historical novel, The Return, had been featured in discussion groups, as well as earned the author numerous requests to be a guest speaker at various book groups (including one in Australia). The author's second novel, Lord Wellesbourne, received third prize in the Royal Ascot, a contest sponsored by the Beau Monde, a Regency-themed chapter of the Romance Writers of America. The third novel, The Minister's Daughter, is set in 1816 Kent. Gilbert lives in Maine with her husband and two daughters.