Love's Serenade — Rachel Cosgrove Payes

Not so beautiful music.

Electra Lassiter can play the harp - but not very well. But that doesn't stop her good-hearted music teacher from involving Electra in an orchestra composed of well-bred young ladies. The aim of this orchestra is to entertain soldiers recuperating from the Napoleonic Wars - a noble endeavor, until Electra meets the handsome but odious Captain Martin Bothemer. Unfortunately for our harpist heroine, the musically inclined captain objects strenuously: to the orchestra, to the harp, and especially to Electra. Instead of making beautiful music, they yowl and screech like two people eminently suited to each other, but who have yet to realize it!

Hero: Captain Martin Bothemer
Heroine: Electra Lassiter