The Most to Lose
Jonah Armstrong and Sterling Randolph are the  best of friends until the fateful night on which Melisande Kendall is killed in a carriage accident. Sterling unfairly blames Jonah for killing the woman he loved, and he uses his influence as the Duke of Hadleigh to have Jonah ostracized from polite society. Now, three years later, after serving with distinction in the Crimean War, Jonah returns to London to assume his new duties as the Earl of Haywood and salvage what is left of the family estate. For Jonah, marrying an heiress is a must. As luck would have it, Cecelia Randolph not only possesses a sizable dowry but she also happens to be in love with Jonah. However, when Sterling discovers that his sister is determined to marry his worst enemy, he begins plotting a new way to destroy his old friend. A heroine who isn’t willing to settle for anything but true love and a hero with a strong sense of honor battle their way to a happily-ever-after ending in Landon’s well-crafted Victorian-set historical romance. --John Charles