He heads home to his perfect family while I continue to serve. When our tours end, we go our separate ways. He’s straight, with a wife and kids back in Texas, and there would be devastating consequences if anyone in the army discovered my secret.īut Doc was never a lifer like me. A night alone in the jungle after a helicopter crash forces us to rely on each other for survival, the secrets we share cementing a bond between us deeper than any other I’ve known.ĭoc begins to play a starring role in my late night fantasies even though I know he can never be anything more than a friend, a brother-in-arms. It wasn’t long before my fellow soldiers became my new family, giving purpose to my time in Vietnam.īut everything changes when Doc Wilde joins my medevac crew. Sophia quickly learns that the life of a young woman in London’s high society can be cruel and dangerous.After running away at the age of 17, I found a new home in the army. Sophia is prepared to give up everything for Tom – until she learns that he seems quite unable to say no to a series of adventurous flings with other women along the way.Įventually, they both end up in London, facing the wiles and whims of Sophia’s aunt, the beguiling but dangerous Lady Bellaston, who will stop at nothing to destroy their love.

Tom is banished in disgrace, and Sophia runs aways from home to escape a forced marriage to William Blifil, the heir to Paradise Hall. So when he falls in love with wealthy heiress Sophia Western, and she falls in love with him, their families unite against the match.

Wilkins, Allworthy’s testy housekeeper.ĭean Lennox Kelly (Jamestown) is poacher-turned gamekeeper Black George and NTA winner Lucy Fallon (Coronation Street) is his daughter Molly, who charms young Tom.Ībandoned as a baby, rescued and adopted by a country gentleman called Squire Allworthy, Tom grows up kind, handsome, free-spirited, and very popular with the ladies.īut he cannot escape his lowly birth. BAFTA-winner Daniel Rigby (Black Mirror) is the disgraced schoolteacher Partridge, who befriends Tom on his journey James Wilbraham (In My Skin) is Tom’s bitter cousin Blifil.įelicity Montagu (The Durrells) plays Blifil's mother Bridget Allworthy, a devoted aunt to Tom, and Janine Duvitski (Benidorm) is Mrs.

Susannah Fielding (This Time with Alan Partridge) is Mrs. Tamzin Merchant (Carnival Row) is Sophia’s Aunt Harriet, with Julian Rhind-Tutt (Britannia) as her bellicose husband Fitzpatrick. Solly McLeod (The Rising, House of the Dragon) stars as the hero Tom, alongside Sophie Wilde (You Don’t Know Me) as the heroine Sophia Western and Hannah Waddingham (Ted Lasso, Sex Education) as the seductive and vengeful Lady Bellaston.Īlso starring are James Fleet ( Bridgerton) as Squire Allworthy, Tom’s warm-hearted adoptive father Alun Armstrong (Breeders) as Squire Western, Sophia’s hard drinking but loving grandfather, and Shirley Henderson ( Happy Valley) as Sophia’s Aunt Western.

Wilde Love by Lucy Lennox