Book #1

Napoleon's war has ended, and English captives detained for years are finally released. Returning to a London he no longer recognizes, and facing astonishing changes in his own family, Lord Jonathan Leighton learns he has inherited a dukedom. But the new nobleman carries the guilt of having wronged his late mentor. Now, he vows to fulfill his promise to find a suitable match for the man's daughter, Victoria-even if it takes offering a nonexistent dowry to spark her interest in matrimony