title: The Captain's Return
author: Bailey, Elizabeth
description: In a village near Steepwood Abbey, a captain -- thought lost in the war -- returns to his home. But things are not quite what they seem....
  
  Captain Henry Colton is stunned to find his lost love living the quiet life of a widow -- with a small daughter! Since they had parted in anger, how can he expect Annabel to let him back into her life?
  
  His only recourse seems to be to pose as her husband, miraculously returned alive from the war....
  
  A young woman disappears. A husband is suspected of murder. Stirring times for all the neighborhood. The Steepwood Scandal.
  
  Hero: Captain Henry Colton
  Heroine: Annabel Lett