Three warriors find a forever home in the heart of a loved one in this collection of stories about veterans of the Napoleonic wars.
The cavalry captain
Lord Cuckoo Comes Home
After ten years at war, Dom Finchley wants only to build the home he’s never had. A place to call his own. Then he meets Chloe.
Chloe Tavistock is past the age for the marriage market, and unfashionable in her shape, her opinions, and her enthusiasms. She is not going to find a husband in York, whatever her fond brother might think. And then she meets Dom.
Two people who have never fitted in...
Three warriors find a forever home in the heart of a loved one in this collection of stories about veterans of the Napoleonic wars.
The cavalry captain
Lord Cuckoo Comes Home
After ten years at war, Dom Finchley wants only to build the home he’s never had. A place to call his own. Then he meets Chloe.
Chloe Tavistock is past the age for the marriage market, and unfashionable in her shape, her opinions, and her enthusiasms. She is not going to find a husband in York, whatever her fond brother might think. And then she meets Dom.
Two people who have never fitted in just might be a perfect fit.
(Previously published in the Bluestocking Belles collection Desperate Daughters)
The freedom-fighter
The Beast Next Door
Eric Lord Wayford would rather face the surgeons of Naples and Napoleon’s armies than the tongues of the ton. He retreats to his estate of Eastwood. Beastwood, as the neighbours called it, for the child he had been—a child whose birthmarks made him an exile.
Charis Fishingham has been escaping to the gardens of Eastwood since she was a child. There, she can escape her mother’s expectations, her sisters’ chatter, and her own worries about her future.
But now her childhood friend, the Beast of Beastwood, has returned, and their future looks to be full of hope. But someone does not wish Charis to wed the Beast of Beastwood, and will stop at nothing to keep them apart.
(Previously published in the Bluestocking Belles collection Valentines from Bath)
The Career Soldier (retired)
Love in Its Season
The Battle of Waterloo lost Jack Wrath the use of one arm and ended his career in the cavalry. With nothing better to do and nowhere else to go, he sees his doctor home to Reabridge—and stays because of Gwen, the female farrier he rescues from a lustful lord.
Gwen Hughes is taller and stronger than many men, and runs her own business. Perhaps she intimidates the men of the town, but that is fine with her. She doesn’t have time for courtship.
Under the harvest moon, two people who believe romance has passed them finally reach their season for love.
(Previously published in the Bluestocking Belles collection Under the Harvest Moon)
