title: Creature Comforts
author: Stirling, Jessica
description: Elspeth and Anna Patterson of Balnesmoor have married well: Elspeth to a wealthy wool merchant, Anna to the son of a respected factor. But they are not happy. The two married sisters, leading oddly parallel lives, find themselves entanglement in a web of infidelity, scandal, and heartache in the midst of Wellington's Peninsular War on the continent.