Abstract:
Love can turn a coward into a hero and a wise man into a moron? Richard Darby groans at such prospects. He’d rather stay in control. Soldiering against Napoleon’s armies, he has cherished a vision of love, but can such a dream become reality?

The Earl of Stanton has a dilemma: he must appease his second wife by marrying off his unruly daughter, Hetty, but how? To Stanton, Richard is a god-send. He already entrusted the young man with a rather sordid secret. Now he entrusts Richard with his daughter’s fate as well…Hetty, however, has sworn never to marry.