The Peninsular Wars, as all conflicts do, sends extraordinary numbers of the “walking wounded” home to Britain. Many spent the rest of their days languishing in the depths of self-pity and despair, with few if any possibilities for a future.
Quinn Lancaster, Earl of Headley, opens his ancestral home to soldiers who are yet incapable of returning home
due to traumatic visual impairments. Headley is simply the messenger, escorting
veterinarian Cassie Woods at the request of one of the men. While she tends to
this first of many patients, Quinn stands by, silently assuming what she is and
isn’t, instead of confronting the situation head on.
As the idiom has often predicted, he makes
an ass of himself until he throws caution—and ego—to the winds and opens up to
this delightful caretaker.
As with many of her earlier novels, Susan
Payne infuses her plot lines with the rudiments of contemporary practices and concepts.
With Blind Faith she has used the
basics of occupational therapy. Cassie’s methods, though new and ground-breaking
for 1814, are now readily accepted in many rehabilitation centers. The reader
is better for it.
On a scale of 1-5, Blind Faith deserves
a 4.
Kat Henry Doran, Wild Women
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