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    Shadows May Fall
    Shadows May Fall
    annemariehartnett
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    • Time
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    • Reads
      Reads 102,159
      102,159102K
    • Votes
      Votes 6,574
      6,5746.5K
    • Parts
      Parts 41
      4141
    • Time
      Time 7h 55m
      7 hours, 55 minutes7h 55m
    annemariehartnett
    Complete
    Complete, First published Jul 02, 2016
    Winter, 1917.
        
        Dorothy never really thought that war would take her older brother, but like so many others before him, Ian enlisted and departed Canada in khaki, leaving Dorothy to care for the youngest Gaston, Charlie. The return of her employer's son eats away at Dorothy: why should he, the rich man's son, the spoiled brat, be back home sleeping in his bed while her brother sleeps in the muck somewhere in France or Belgium?
        
        Robbie Monroe isn't the brat who ran off for a great adventure. Nearly deaf in one ear and deeply lonely, he is a man struggling to put his life back together after his time "over there," and Dorothy seems to be the only one he can talk to. She doesn't want to trust him but she can't help it, and Dorothy soon finds herself with something she didn't realize she desperately needed: a friend.
        
        Before the war's end, fate has one final reminder for Dorothy that happy endings don't always happen in real life, no matter how much she tells herself they can.
        
        Set in in the weeks before the 1917 Halifax Explosion, Shadows May Fall is a non-traditional World War I romance.
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    • 1910s
    • canada
    • canadian
    • halifax
    • historicalfiction
    • history
    • lovestory
    • newadult
    • novascotia
    • poorgirl
    • richboy
    • sweetromance
    • traditionalromance
    • worldwar1
    • youngadult
    1910scanadacanadianhalifaxhistoricalfictionhistorylovestorynewadultnovascotiapoorgirlrichboysweetromancetraditionalromanceworldwar1youngadult
    Table of contents
    • Intro
      Sat, Jul 2, 2016
    • October 22, 1917
      Sat, Jul 2, 2016
    • Chapter One
      Sat, Jul 2, 2016
    • Chapter Two
      Sat, Jul 2, 2016
    • October 25, 1917
      Sat, Jul 2, 2016
    • France, 1915
      Sat, Jul 2, 2016
    • Chapter Three
      Sat, Jul 2, 2016
    • Chapter Four
      Sun, Jul 3, 2016
    • Chapter Five
      Sun, Jul 3, 2016
    • Chapter Six
      Mon, Jul 4, 2016
    • Belgium, 1916
      Wed, Jul 6, 2016
    • Chapter Seven
      Tue, Jul 5, 2016
    • Chapter Eight
      Wed, Jul 6, 2016
    • Chapter Nine
      Thu, Jul 7, 2016
    • November 11, 1917
      Sat, Jul 9, 2016
    • Chapter Ten
      Sun, Jul 10, 2016
    • November 20, 1917
      Sun, Jul 10, 2016
    • Chapter Eleven
      Mon, Jul 11, 2016
    • France, 1917
      Tue, Jul 12, 2016
    • Chapter Twelve
      Wed, Jul 13, 2016
    • Chapter Thirteen
      Thu, Jul 14, 2016
    • December 2, 1917
      Fri, Jul 15, 2016
    • Chapter Fourteen
      Fri, Jul 15, 2016
    • Chapter Fifteen
      Sat, Jul 16, 2016
    • Belgium, 1917
      Mon, Jul 18, 2016
    • Chapter Sixteen (Part One)
      Mon, Jul 18, 2016
    • Chapter Sixteen (Part Two)
      Mon, Jul 18, 2016
    • Chapter Seventeen
      Tue, Jul 19, 2016
    • Chapter Eighteen
      Wed, Jul 20, 2016
    • Chapter Nineteen
      Thu, Jul 21, 2016
    • Chapter Twenty
      Fri, Jul 22, 2016
    • Chapter Twenty-One
      Fri, Jul 22, 2016
    • Chapter Twenty-Two
      Sat, Jul 23, 2016
    • Halifax, 1917
      Sat, Jul 23, 2016
    • February 12, 1918
      Sat, Jul 23, 2016
    • Chapter Twenty-Three
      Sat, Jul 23, 2016
    • Chapter Twenty-Four
      Sat, Jul 23, 2016
    • February 18, 1920
      Sat, Jul 23, 2016
    • The End
      Sat, Jul 23, 2016
    • Extra - History Bite
      Tue, Oct 11, 2016
    • Thanks :)
      Sat, Dec 31, 2016

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    Winter, 1917.
        
        Dorothy never really thought that war would take her older brother, but like so many others before him, Ian enlisted and departed Canada in khaki, leaving Dorothy to care for the youngest Gaston, Charlie. The return of her employer's son eats away at Dorothy: why should he, the rich man's son, the spoiled brat, be back home sleeping in his bed while her brother sleeps in the muck somewhere in France or Belgium?
        
        Robbie Monroe isn't the brat who ran off for a great adventure. Nearly deaf in one ear and deeply lonely, he is a man struggling to put his life back together after his time "over there," and Dorothy seems to be the only one he can talk to. She doesn't want to trust him but she can't help it, and Dorothy soon finds herself with something she didn't realize she desperately needed: a friend.
        
        Before the war's end, fate has one final reminder for Dorothy that happy endings don't always happen in real life, no matter how much she tells herself they can.
        
        Set in in the weeks before the 1917 Halifax Explosion, Shadows May Fall is a non-traditional World War I romance.

    41 parts

    • The End
      Sat, Jul 23, 2016
    • Extra - History Bite
      Tue, Oct 11, 2016
    • Thanks :)
      Sat, Dec 31, 2016
    #151poorgirl
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