
Love Under Fire (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Civil War NovelBy Randall ParrishLength9h 13m
About this audiobook
Love Under Fire is a vigorous wartime romance that fuses adventure, espionage, and sentimental devotion against the upheaval of modern battle. Parrish writes in the brisk, scene-driven manner of early twentieth-century popular fiction, favoring clear moral contrasts, rapid reversals, and dialogue charged with patriotic urgency. Set within the shadow of European conflict, the novel belongs to the era's prolific literature of war romance, where private feeling is tested by public catastrophe and courage becomes both a military and emotional virtue. Randall Parrish, an American clergyman, journalist, and prolific novelist, was especially known for historical and frontier romances that placed honorable protagonists in moments of crisis. His background in public communication and moral instruction shaped his fiction's directness, ethical clarity, and taste for perilous settings. Writing during a period when war news and national ideals stirred American readers, Parrish found in armed conflict a dramatic arena for loyalty, sacrifice, and romantic steadfastness. This book is recommended for readers interested in popular historical romance, wartime adventure, and the cultural imagination of the First World War era. It offers not psychological modernism, but a compelling example of narrative momentum, patriotic feeling, and old-fashioned heroism.
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Audiobook details
GenreRomance, Action and Adventure
Length9 hrs 13 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 10, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Light of Scarthey (Annotated)
21CHAPTER XX WE ARRIVE AT A CRISIS
2CHAPTER I BETWEEN THE LINES
22CHAPTER XXI WE CAPTURE THE HOUSE
3CHAPTER II AFTER THE DESPATCH-BEARER
23CHAPTER XXII MISS WILLIFRED DECLARES HERSELF
4CHAPTER III A FRIEND RATHER THAN AN ENEMY
24CHAPTER XXIII THE CHALLENGE
5CHAPTER IV THE COMING OF DAWN
25CHAPTER XXIV I BECOME A FAMOUS SWORDSMAN
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6CHAPTER V ACQUAINTANCES, NOT FRIENDS
26CHAPTER XXV THE END OF THE DUEL
7CHAPTER VI A BOLD FRONT
27CHAPTER XXVI MISS WILLIFRED SURPRISES US
8CHAPTER VII A WOMAN'S PRISONER
28CHAPTER XXVII THE BODY OF LE GAIRE
9CHAPTER VIII THE COMING OF THE ENEMY
29CHAPTER XXVIII I FORCE BILLIE TO LISTEN
10CHAPTER IX IMPORTANT NEWS
30CHAPTER XXIX THE MYSTERY DEEPENS
11CHAPTER X MISS WILLIFRED INTERVENES
31CHAPTER XXX UNDER NEW ORDERS
12CHAPTER XI THE RETURN OF LE GAIRE
32CHAPTER XXXI THE DISAPPEARANCE OF BILLIE
13CHAPTER XII AN ATTEMPT AT ESCAPE
33CHAPTER XXXII WE REPULSE THE ENEMY
14CHAPTER XIII I MEET LE GAIRE
34CHAPTER XXXIII MISS BILLIE REAPPEARS
15CHAPTER XIV ACROSS THE RIVER
35CHAPTER XXXIV HER STORY
16CHAPTER XV I MEET AN EX-SLAVE
36CHAPTER XXXV THE DEAD MAN
17CHAPTER XVI A CALL TO DUTY
37CHAPTER XXXVI THE LAST STAND
18CHAPTER XVII BEGINNING THE NIGHT ADVENTURE
38CHAPTER XXXVII THE MYSTERY SOLVED
19CHAPTER XVIII OVERHEARD CONVERSATION
39CHAPTER XXXVIII THE COMING OF THE NIGHT
20CHAPTER XIX LE GAIRE FORCES A DECISION
40Memorable Quotes