The Courtship of Colonel Crowne

A defiant young lady learns from a devastating officer that love can be more dangerous than war. He Came, He Saw, He Was Conquered Though from olden years Colonel Hugh Crowne was a veteran of the bloody wars against Napoleon. Now peace had come, and Colonel Crowne had come home to England to enjoy the rewards due him as a gallant officer and wealthy lord. Little did he suspect that his campaign of amorous conquest would carry him into conflict with an adversary who shattered his defenses and put his heart to rout, an opponent who refused to be taken by storm and who answered his most determined assaults with rapier wit and cannonades of prickly pride. Her name was Miss Julia Seaton, and she was a foe worthy of the most dashing gentleman's steel.