A Touch of Emerald — Regina Jeffers

Four crazy Balochs. An Indian maiden. A cave with a maze of passages. A hero, not yet tested. A Gypsy band. And a missing emerald. For nearly two decades, the Realm thwarted the efforts of all Shaheed Mire sent their way, but now the Baloch warlord is in England, and the tribal leader means to reclaim the fist-sized emerald he believes one of the Realm stole during their rescue of a girl upon whom Mir turned his men. Mir means to take his revenge on the Realm and the Indian girl's child, Lady Sonalí Fowler. Daniel Kerrington, Viscount Worthing, has loved Lady Sonalí since they were but children. Yet, when his father, the Earl of Linworth, objects to Sonalí's bloodlines, Worthing thinks never to claim her. However, when danger arrives in the form of the Realm's old enemy, Kerrington ignores all caution for the woman he loves. "The first fully original series from Austen pastiche author Jeffers is a knockout." - Publishers Weekly