The Courtship of Colonel Crowne — Margaret SeBastian

A defiant young lady teaches a devastating officer that love is more dangerous than war.

He came, he saw, he was conquered.

Though far from old in years, Colonel Hugh Crowne was a veteran of the bloody wars against Napoleon. Now peace had come, and Colonel Crowne had come home to England to enjoy the rewards due him as a gallant officer and wealthy lord.

Little did he suspect that his campaign of amorous conquest would carry him into conflict with an adversary who shattered his defenses and put his heart to rout...an opponent who refused to be taken by storm and who answered his most determined assaults with rapier wit and cannonades of prickly pride.

Her name was Miss Julia Seaton -- and she was a foe worthy of the most dashing gentleman's steel...