num_pages: 210
description: When frigate Captain Buckingham Kernow-Smith encounters a sprite in a topiary garden going by the name of Gannymede he remembers his Shakespeare. Pulling off her stocking cap he reveals the character of Rosalind from As You Like It played in this case by the appealing Fanny Edwards.Three years pass. The War over Buck encounters his Rosalind at a ball where she has developed into a notable beauty. However her guardian confides to him that she is dancing on the very edge of propriety. Buck who has been fighting the French since he was twelve also finds the ton confining and sympathizes with Fanny/Rosalind's plight as a properly reared young lady.Together they make a dangerous pair straddling the line between propriety and scandal indulging in a masquerade in daylight riding together in a phaeton race and laying plans for Fanny/Rosalind to play a role in Covent Garden Theater. Will Buck confide his secrets and overcome his life-long aversion to marriage?Can someone as headstrong and impetuous as Rosalind ever settle for such a union?
language: English
title: Rescuing Rosalind
publisher: Orson Whitney Press