While I'm on the subject of Unconventional Courtship...

I don't think I could possibly do it justice, but prompt 87, "Secret Agent Sam" by Kathleen Creighton sounds very suited to be a setting update of Persuasion. Thus:

Trouble becomes him.

Reporter [Frederick Wentworth]’s penchant for working in war zones had gotten him into hot water before, but this was uncharted territory, even for him. Because the pilot assigned to fly him into danger was none other than [Anne Elliot].

Once she’d been [Annabelle May], an eighteen-year-old girl who’d looked at him starry eyed. Now she was [Anne], a very competent professional, whose eyes seemed to hold all manners of secrets. If [Anne] was thrown by learning who her new client was, she couldn’t afford to show it – or the fact that her strong feelings for [Frederick] hadn’t changed.

But if he couldn’t accept who she was back them, what would he possibly want with her now – now that life had taken a direction neither of them could have imagined…and left them both clinging to each other for their survival?

Also, the banners are as addictive as ever.

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While I'm on the subject of Unconventional Courtship...

I don't think I could possibly do it justice, but prompt 87, "Secret Agent Sam" by Kathleen Creighton sounds very suited to be a setting update of Persuasion. Thus:

Trouble becomes him.

Reporter [Frederick Wentworth]’s penchant for working in war zones had gotten him into hot water before, but this was uncharted territory, even for him. Because the pilot assigned to fly him into danger was none other than [Anne Elliot].

Once she’d been [Annabelle May], an eighteen-year-old girl who’d looked at him starry eyed. Now she was [Anne], a very competent professional, whose eyes seemed to hold all manners of secrets. If [Anne] was thrown by learning who her new client was, she couldn’t afford to show it – or the fact that her strong feelings for [Frederick] hadn’t changed.

But if he couldn’t accept who she was back them, what would he possibly want with her now – now that life had taken a direction neither of them could have imagined…and left them both clinging to each other for their survival?

Also, the banners are as addictive as ever.

( Cut for space )

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