My dear Mr. Clemons,
What a delicious on dit I have for you!
Lord R, a most distinguished cavalry officer recently returned from Brussels after recovering from quite savage wounds in last summer’s battle, has disappeared. One might speculate that he has simply taken himself off to the country for a respite against this season’s matchmaking mamas, except that no such respite is needed. Lord R is completely unavailable to matchmakers, having been affianced for over a year to a duke’s granddaughter.
However… I have learned from my maid that Lord R attended a certain birthday party for a young Scottish lady, along with his fiancée and her grandfather the duke.
Lord R has not been seen since.
Nor has the fiancée, nor has the Scottish lady whose birthday was celebrated. It was noted that Lord R was seen in close conversation with the Scottish lady, an almost intimate tete-a-tete that sent eyebrows skyward, especially those of the duke.
What could have happened to Lord R and the young ladies? Is he in danger? One hopes his fiancée has not done him and her rival harm!
Claims of the Heart
Since a perilous fall, Lucie Macbeth has been seeing more than a settled future as the heiress to a Scottish barony. The visions plaguing her include a man—one far above her class and breeding, and English to boot. He’s engaged to a duke’s granddaughter as well, and thus wholly inappropriate. Though she can’t marry him, and she won’t become any man’s leman, when the Sight warns her of danger to him, her conscience, and her heart tell her she can’t walk away.
Since his return from Waterloo, Major Lord Rudgwick has been rusticating in the country teaching himself how to live as a man with only one hand and pondering how to end the engagement he contracted before his world turned upside down. But then a letter arrives from an old army comrade, requesting Rudgwick’s aid for his daughter, Lucie Macbeth, the woman he met one year earlier, the woman whose claims on his heart he can’t deny.
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USA Today bestselling author Alina K. Field earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English and German literature but prefers the happier world of romance fiction. Her roots are in the Midwestern U.S., but after six very, very, very cold years in Chicago, she moved to Southern California where she shares a midcentury home with a gold-eyed terrier and only occasionally misses snow.
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