title: Brief Glory: The Life of Arthur Rhys Davids DSO MC*
author: Alex Revell
description: a fascinating account of life and death in World War I. (<i>Cross and Cockade</i>)
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  A journey into pleasure..
  
  The night before dissolute Lord Denham is about to embark on his grand tour,
  he meets an unexpected complication. In boy’s clothes that barely conceal her
  delectable curves, his childhood friend Lady Althea Curtiss—desperate to
  escape an arranged marriage—arrives, demanding free passage!
  
  Rhys accepts his unlikely traveling companion with great reluctance—the
  scandal is sure to blow up in his face—until he finds there is far more
  intimate territory Lady Thea is curious to explore. Soon he realizes that he
  is in danger of awakening not only Thea’s sensuality, but also his own long-
  buried heart.…
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  “Turn around,” Rhys murmured.
  
  It should have been easier when she could not see him, but that slight
  betraying catch in his breathing gave her an unexpected feeling of power, and
  the last lingering fear that he was pretending desire in order to save her
  humiliation fled.
  
  “Ah.” The bliss of loosened stay-laces, 