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Lia and Luca from The River of Time Series by Lisa T. Bergren Luca is the one on the bottom. The other fella is Lord Greco–he’s amazing but he didn’t make the list because I never did quite like Alessandra (his eventual love interest). Maybe I was just jealous? 😉 We had told our parents about each other as things were getting serious between us. The dates were becoming more frequent and without saying it out loud in words we knew we were thinking about marriage. The day was set to meet his parents and younger brother at a charming Indian restaurant within the lush green central Delhi. I was shivering with nervousness but his parents tried to make me feel right at home. After some time I started having fun as they tried to know me better and calmed my nerves. Marcello and the two other leading men of this “fan-freakin-tastic” (as Gabi would say) time-travel series are my book boyfriends. They can make me swoon any day, and I’ve never been able to decide just who is my favorite. So **obvi** Marcello and his lady-love—the fiery, fierce, and hilarious—Gabriella (Gabi) Beterinni had to be at the top of this list.

I was previously working in a publishing house but had just left it because I had planned on going on sail after marrying him. Also, I wanted to paint more as I am an artist. It would’ve been easy to fall into depression after he left. It was the first time the love of my life was away from me for months together after all. But my mother, my mother-in-law and fiancé made sure to keep me occupied and happy. I was spoiled with numerous outings and pampering at the salon. There was a lot of marriage shopping to be done as well. It was difficult controlling the tears whenever I talked to Prateek on Skype(video chat). How awful was to see him but not being able to touch him? I missed the big hugs in the warm sunset car. Finally…….My Marriage So, as I sit here after eight months of marriage, after my husband has just left for the first sail after marriage, I would like to add that life of a merchant navy wife is hard filled with days when the only person to understand you in and out is far away. There are times when you have to take care of your family and home even when you feel miserable. Where a lot of nights are filled with crying in your room alone as your heart aches when the distance grows too great. But it is also filled with pampering from your in-laws because they know you are lonely, with support from your husband even though he’s not with you, with surprises and with hope of the times to come when the sailor comes home laden with gifts. You also know that you will come out as a stronger person. And the cherry on the cake is that this time I get to join my husband on the ship after a month or two. NOTE: The River of Time is in my Top 3 favorite series EVER, and it won’t be giving up that spot anytime soon. I could literally fan-girl over it for hours if you let me. I plan on writing a spotlight post on it some day—I promise it won’t take you hours to read it, though. Ha! If you’ve been following me for any amount of time, chances are you have already read about my love of Connilyn Cossestte’s books. If you read my review of her 2019 release, Until the Mountains Fall, you will remember that I said it’s my favorite book of hers yet, and that IS the honest truth! I loved Rivkah and Malakhi’s beautiful love story so much! However, for the sake of this list, I decided to go with a different set of her characters whose story stands as an example of what true love looks like through every season of life.

All I saw when I saw him was the love he felt for me. Later on there were people who had experience with sailors, who assured me that the life of merchant navy wife is tough but there, are a lot of benefits as well like being to be able to sail with the husband. It never stopped bothering me though, how ready people are to make assumptions about merchant navy without having adequate knowledge on the subject. I had just received a call saying I was approved for the rental I had applied for. The landlord, who turned out to be as sleazy as they come, liked my spunk and willingness to work despite personal issues in my life. A little over the top for someone who didn’t know me well.

Fast forward a couple of months and it was May, by this point the idea of love being a pipe dream became reality. I had been on a few dates, but most (if not all) just wanted ‘friends with benefits’, I wanted a companion — someone to spend my life with. We got engaged in a fairytale ceremony and got showered with the blessings or our elders. The whole night was filled with dancing and cheerful celebration. The hard part was when the time came for him to leave for his duty for a long seven months. A girl who had always scoffed at long distance relationships previously was standing at the airport bidding her fiancé a teary goodbye. I’m sure every sailor queen knows the feeling of saying goodbye to her sailor before he leaves for his duty. How heavy the heart feels as if filled with cold searing lead but how do you tell a man not to leave for his second love- the sea. My First Time Away from Him It’s hard to remember the lonely feeling I had twenty years ago at this time. I was alone having left my husband the year before and had been living in a motel room with two small children until I could save enough money for a place of our own.My mother loved him the moment she met him. How could she not? He is an honest and honorable man whose world crashes down when I am sad. My father was impressed by him as well. Prateek and I were overjoyed as these things went without a hitch. In no time our parents fixed our engagement date before he was meant to leave for his sail. After the engagement date was fixed various people tried to discourage my family and I by declaring things like, “Sailors are not loyal to their wives” or “Being a sailor’s wife is a very tough life” and many more distasteful comments. It was hard for me to relate Prateek with any of those statements. I got unhappy whenever anyone made such assumptions about the merchant navy life without even meeting him once.