The ninth book in the Bastion Club series, 2009

Lady Letitia Randall

#7 Christian Allardyee,

Marquess of Dearne

Alicia “Carrington” Pevensey

#2 Anthony Blake,

Viscount Torrington

Phoebe Malleson

#5 Jocelyn Deverell,

Viscount Paignton

#1 THE LADY CHOSEN

#2 A GENTLEMAN’S HONOR

#3 A LADY OF HIS OWN

#4 A FINE PASSION

Lady Penelope Selborne

#3 Charles St. Austell,

Earl of Lostwithiel

Madeline Gascoigne

#6 Gervase Tregarth,

Earl of Crowhurst

Lady Clarice Attwood

#4 Jack Warnefleet,

Baron Warnefleet of Minchinbury

Leonora Carling

#1 Tristan Wemyss,

Earl of Trentham

And so it ends. DL

#5 TO DISTRACTION

#6 BEYOND SEDUCTION

#7 THE EDGE OF DESIRE

September 1816

Coquetdale, Northumbria

It wasn’t supposed to have been like this.

Wrapped in his greatcoat, alone on the box seat of his excellently sprung curricle, Royce Henry Varisey, tenth Duke of Wolverstone, turned the latest in the succession of post-horses he’d raced up the highway from London onto the minor road leading to Sharperton and Harbottle. The gently rounded foothills of the Cheviot Hills gathered him in like a mother’s arms; Wolverstone Castle, his childhood home and newly inherited principal estate, lay close by the village of Alwinton, beyond Harbottle.