The Emperor's Dragoon — Ann Hulme

“I am going to make the captain fall in love with me. And when he does I shall reject him utterly and there will be nothing he can do about it.”

When Napoleon's army occupies Vienna in the winter of 1805, Leon de Vaudry, Captain of the Dragoons, finds himself a billet at the home of a Viennese Baroness. Her daughter Stephanie is horrified at the very idea of a Frenchman in their midst and determines to shatter the dashing captain's infuriating self-esteem. But she soon finds her strategy has not at all the desired effect…