title: The Dashing Guardian
author: Curzon, Lucia
description: Dazzling, impetuous Damaris had loved Robert, the high-spirited partner of her girlhood, for as long as she could remember. But as passionately as she proclaimed her will to marry, nothing could convince her guardian, Robert's older brother Giles, that her affection wasn't just a headstrong whim.
  
  When Robert leaves for war in America, heartbroken Damaris wages her own battle--against forbidding Giles.  But the sparks between them ignite unexpected emotions as Damaris begins to notice Giles' dashing manliness and quiet strength.  Suddenly she's trapped--caught between her pledge of loyalty to one brother...and her desperate yearning for the other...