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Lord Rupert Carrington, heir apparent to the Marquess of Lansdowne and former captain in His Majesty‚Äôs Royal Navy, cannot forget the girl he loved in his youth, who died after he left to fight in the war against Napoleon. Guilt-ridden, Rupert buries his regret by helping the London detectives of Bow Street take down criminals. But when Rupert ferrets out a ring of smugglers and is marked for death, the prince regent banishes him to a remote corner of England to live among the locals and be known only by his title of captain. Thus, Rupert will remain safe until the villains are arrested and brought to court, where he will offer testimony critical to their conviction.

On the first day of Rupert‚Äôs exile to the ‚Äúwilds of Devon,‚Äù he meets Alexandra Dancy, a beautiful country miss whose complex character and extraordinary courage stir in him a degree of affection and admiration he has not yet felt for any lady. As fate or Providence would have it, Alexandra and her family, whose property backs his on the other side of a canal, have been hired to provide Rupert‚Äôs meals and to care for his house and stables.

When Rupert‚Äôs friendship and warm attentions awaken Alexandra‚Äôs heart, she suffers the torment of loving a man she believes is of a higher social class than he pretends, and therefore beyond her reach. The impoverished Dancys hide their own aristocratic origins to protect a dark secret known to only one man‚ÄîCecil Bedford, a blackguard of the first order, who wields a cruel power over Alexandra and her family. Can Rupert save her from Bedford‚Äôs clutches and topple the seemingly insurmountable barriers to winning her love and her hand?","variants":[{"id":116254,"sku":"5141420","weight":"0.0","height":null,"width":null,"depth":null,"deletedAt":null,"isMaster":true,"productId":97895,"costPrice":"7.2","position":1,"costCurrency":"USD","trackInventory":true,"taxCategoryId":2,"updatedAt":"2023-03-27T11:51:16.103-06:00","isbn":"9781599929767","upc":"9781599929767","itemType":"DISCOUNTED","status":"OUTAPRINT","usePoints":true,"earnPoints":true,"msrp":"17.99","salable":false,"hide":false,"popularity":0,"shippingSurchargeTypeId":null,"createdAt":null,"oracleBuyerName":"Kara Nordstrom","oracleVendor":"DESERET BOOK DISTRIBUTORS","oracleDepartmentId":"2300","oracleClassId":"99","oracleBuyerId":"66","oracleClassName":"FICTION","oracleDepartmentName":"FICTION - LITERATURE","oracleClass":"99","oracleDept":"2300","oracleHold":null,"erpSalable":false,"erpRequiresStockToSell":true,"erpVersion":0,"erpUpdatedAt":"2023-02-09T05:16:33.000-07:00","acumaticaBrand":"DBDIST","erpCreatedAt":"2021-07-29 21:54:50 UTC","optionValues":[{"id":4,"name":"Paperback","presentation":"Paperback","optionTypeName":"Book Format","optionTypeId":1,"optionTypePresentation":"Book Format"}]}],"additionalDetails":"","producers":[{"id":19894,"parentId":1,"position":0,"name":"Wanda Luce","permalink":"author/wanda-luce","taxonomyId":1,"lft":35066,"rgt":35067,"iconFileName":null,"iconContentType":null,"iconFileSize":null,"iconUpdatedAt":null,"description":"

Wanda Luce developed a passion for English historical fiction in her girlhood that blossomed as she devoured the works of Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Robert Lewis Stevenson, Georgette Heyer, Pamela Aidan, and many others. Wanda’s debut Regency romance, Lydia (2011), was revised and re-released as The Soul of a Lady in 2016. She also wrote In the Wilds of Devon (2015) and A Dangerous Affection (2017). Wanda resides in Utah with her husband, Darrell, and their dog Watson, alias Mr. Piddles.

Wanda lived in Germany for over a year, exploring castles and strolling down cobblestone streets. She loves to travel and plans to do a great deal more of it someday. She also has a passion for history, nature, music, and BBC period dramas. She graduated from Brigham Young University with a bachelor’s degree in German literature.

To contact Wanda or learn more about her books, please visit wandaluce.com or wandaluce.blogspot.com.

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by Wanda Luce

by Wanda Luce

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