Destiny at Balaclava — Alanna Wilson

"You are a Mainwaring, my girl, and therefore endowed with plenty of courage and the stubbornness of twenty devils," Lord Cumnor tells his daughter as she embarks for the Crimea as one of Miss Nightingale's nurses.

Lady Eustacia Mainwaring, acclaimed beauty and heiress, had amazed Long Society by declaring her intention of becoming a common nurse. Now facing the horrors of war at Scutari, she will need every ounce of her strength and courage. But how could she have remained in comfort in England after reading in Casualty lists that the only man she will ever marry, surgeon Roger Verrall, is 'missing believed killed'?