title: Lord Eaglebeak
author: Pounds, Regina
description: Love can turn a coward into a hero and a wise man into a moron? Richard Darby groans at such prospects. He’d rather stay in control. Soldiering against Napoleon’s armies, he has cherished a vision of love, but can such a dream become reality?
   The Earl of Stanton has a dilemma: he must appease his second wife by marrying off his unruly daughter, Hetty. Oh, how? To Stanton, Richard is a godsend. He already entrusted the young man with a rather sordid secret. Now he entrusts Richard with his daughter’s fate as well…
   Hetty has vowed never to marry, but her Papa leaves her no choice. She accepts the prearranged betrothal…after all, at the end of a year she may cry off. Meanwhile, she’ll do her best to discourage her new fiancÃ©, the man she dubs Lord Eaglebeak.
   Soon tension brews: Richard’s aunt lays a wager against Hetty, his elusive young ward refuses to become a pawn, mysteries from the past lurk, and Hetty’s most powerful spurned suitor has an agenda of his own… It takes a mighty thunderstorm to clear the air before Lord Eaglebeak learns his lesson, and his lady learns hers.