I Have Always Loved You

Two People. Two Different Lives. One LoveClear-eyed Octavia often says that like the Roman matron for who she is named, she seems destined for abandonment. Handsome, fun-loving and heir to an earldom, Dorian's experience is the opposite. Life is a game in which people, including Octavia, are his pawns. Everyone loves him until he does the he runs off with anther man's wife. Despite the permanent ache in her heart, Octavia spends her early and middle years building a life she loves as a village apothecary with people who love and appreciate her. Dorian spends most of his in regret. When Fate brings them back together, will their shared memory keep them apart? Or can the past be forgotten and deep wounds be healed? This story, told with wit and humor by the two main characters in turn and shifting from Italy to England over a spread of more than twenty years, demonstrates the resilience of the human spirit and the enormous power of love.