Honour Bound — Helen Dickson

Louise knew she wouldn't rest until Colonel Robert Gray, adherent of Cromwell, was dead. He had killed her friends, Lord and Lady Slade, and sent her younger children, as well as her own sister, into slavery. Francis, the new Lord Slade, determined Gray was a haunted man, but pursuit would be easier without Louise. She was insistent, and he acknowledged her right -- but reviled himself for his growing passion for this beautiful woman. Engaged to Anne Sinclair, he wasn't free -- and Louise was an honourable woman. Caught up in the ravages of the Commonwealth, and the disaster of the Battle of worcester, where was hope?