The Warrior's Wallflower

Napoleon’s most dashing officer is about to kidnap England’s shyest wallflower.

On the eve of Waterloo, Gaetan, Count of Wagram, hears of an Englishwoman with an extraordinary reputation: Lady Maggy Thornton, the painfully shy daughter of Britain’s Foreign Secretary, has an uncanny talent for predicting Wellington’s strategies.

If she can anticipate the Iron Duke’s next move, Gaetan intends to find out how.

Without orders and with no time to lose, Napoleon’s most dashing officer crosses the Channel alone, walks into a London ballroom, and asks England’s most awkward wallflower to dance.

Maggy can scarcely believe it. Gentlemen usually avoid her, ladies laugh at her, and she would rather spend an evening studying cavalry maneuvers than attempting conversation over a quadrille. Society may find her hopelessly gauche, but war is the one thing Maggie understands—and while Europe marches toward its greatest battle, she is trapped in silk slippers and another wretched Season.

Then her impossibly handsome dancing partner takes her into the garden and announces that he is kidnapping her.

Gaetan expects tears. Resistance. Perhaps a scream.

He does not expect Maggy to discover that he intends to take her straight toward Waterloo—

and agree to go willingly.

With two nations racing toward a battle that may decide the fate of Europe, Napoleon’s most daring officer and England’s Warrior Wallflower are about to discover that neither of them understands the enemy quite as well as they thought.