title: The Longing
author:  Cornelia Warmenhoven 
description: As a young nurse in the Netherlands, Cornelia Warmenhoven used the cover of her profession to work with the Dutch Resistance against the Nazis in World War II. Later, with her husband and son, Cornelia traveled the globe and lived on four continents--often very far off the beaten path. Today, she makes her home in Midlothian, Virginia.
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  A PASSION SO STRONG
  
  By
  
  Chasity Bowlin
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  Copyright © 2016 by Seraphina Donavan/Chasity Bowlin
  
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  PROLOGUE
  
  Huddled in her dark cell, she shivered from the damp and the cold. Clad only
  in a dirty shift, her hair shorn and no blankets or heat of any kind, she
  should have grown used to the cold by now. But it wasn’t simply the
  temperature of the room. The cold had seeped into her to her soul. A
  combination of fear and resignation filled her. He was not coming.
  
  It wasn’t as if he’d promised. And wherever he was, there was little doubt
  that he had no idea what had happened to her. Why would he? His business was
  not in Penwickett at all, but at his family seat to the North. The ar