Eighteen-year-old Fenella is a mischievous as her freckled elfinbeauty and feline green eyes suggest ? but beneath that puckish charmshe hides her ardent desire to do all in her power to make her beloved cousin Periquine, Lord Corbury, happy.
When to her chagrin thedashing Lord returns from the Napoleonic War after fighting withWellington, penniless and passionately in love with another ? a womanof great wealth and even greater beauty, whom he cannot marry withoutwealth of his own, Fenella sacrifices her private passion to hiswellbeing.
Laying her life and her love on the line, she joinsPeriquine in a swashbuckling and death-defying life of crime ashighwaymen, robbers and smugglers. Will their exploits reap the riches he needs? And will Fenella?s all-conquering love remain unrequited?Only when Perequine faces losing her forever will he find the answerin his heart...
Eighteen-year-old Fenella is a mischievous as her freckled elfinbeauty and feline green eyes suggest ? but beneath that puckish charmshe hides her ardent desire to do all in her power to make her beloved cousin Periquine, Lord Corbury, happy.
When to her chagrin thedashing Lord returns from the Napoleonic War after fighting withWellington, penniless and passionately in love with another ? a womanof great wealth and even greater beauty, whom he cannot marry withoutwealth of his own, Fenella sacrifices her private passion to hiswellbeing.
Laying her life and her love on the line, she joinsPeriquine in a swashbuckling and death-defying life of crime ashighwaymen, robbers and smugglers. Will their exploits reap the riches he needs? And will Fenella?s all-conquering love remain unrequited?Only when Perequine faces losing her forever will he find the answerin his heart...
