The Sting of Love

About this book

Georgina is on a visit to her widowed father in England to celebrate his seventy-seventh birthday decades after he fought in WWII. She is astonished when he asks if she will accompany him back to Trieste in Northern Italy. He has always refused to set foot in Europe again. What changed? And why now? Captain James Drummond survived the battlefields of North Africa and Italy. Instead of his anticipated return home to wife and four-year-old daughter whom he had yet to meet he was assigned to the grim task of military occupation in Trieste. On a summer patrol in 1945 in the disputed hills above Trieste he encountered a group of Yugoslav partisans bathing. When he glimpsed a woman emerging from the pool water cascading down her body a new conflict emerges with no clear lines one he had to navigate alone. The war-weary Captain was faced with heart-wrenching choices. Meanwhile Georgina faces her own demonsa stale marriage a secret affair and her fathers new revelations. Weaving historical facts with fictional characters The Sting of Love moves seamlessly between Georginas tumultuous life and that of her father in the aftermath of WWII viewed through the lens of their several weeks together in Trieste.