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The Final Act
by Hilary Green
Book 4 in the Follies series.
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After months living with Italian partisans, an exhausted Richard makes an error behind enemy lines that produces devastating consequences. Rose travels with entertainers following the armies across liberated France and must decide whether a new love can survive the obligations created by the past. Merry is reunited with Felix only to discover that wartime duty can separate them again as decisively as injury or imprisonment.
The final volume follows the friends through the last campaigns and into the uncertain transition from war to peace. Victory does not restore the people or possibilities they have lost, and relationships shaped by secrecy must be remade in civilian life. The conclusion treats endurance rather than triumph as their achievement: theatre, friendship and love continue, but none of them can return unchanged to the world that existed before 1939.
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