Cassandra — Diana Delmore

A Soldier's Daughter

Raised by an officer father on the edge of Napoleonic battlefields, Cassandra was accustomed to danger and excitement. As daring and high-spirited as she was lovely, she scorned the balls and other pleasures allowed respectable young ladies. For Cassandra, it was gambling halls, the race track, and the theatre-even if she had to go dressed as a young man!

But Cassandra had a lot to learn about the beau monde and the handsome, sometimes high-handed Earl of Ashbourne who was her new guardian. And as the Earl rescued her again and again from the myriad dangers of London as well as from her own near scandalous behavior, she began to see her lordly chaperone in a far more loving light...