It is 1818 and Waterloo is three years in the past. <br> <br>For Giles Fenwick, Earl of Rockcliffe, memories have yet to fade. Giles is nursing the physical scars of battle and the emotional scars of the long years of war, of friends and comrades lost. Unexpectedly come into the title, he feels ill at ease in the polite world, and despises those who fawn over his wealth and rank and he has no intention of offering for one of the Season’s debutantes and marrying for the sake of an heir. <br> <br>Cordelia Summers is new to society, the daughter of a wealthy merchant who has agreed to be sponsored into the Ton to please her father. Intelligent and strong-minded, Cordelia has a lively sense of humour and has no intention of being married for her fortune. <br> <br>A brief and unexpected meeting in a wayside tavern throws Giles and Cordelia together. It is the beginning of an unlikely friendship, but as the Earl and the Cit’s daughter get to know each other better, they realise that not all marriages are created equal. <br> <br>The Reluctant Debutante is the second of the Light Division Romances, following some of the officers of Wellington’s elite division into peacetime. <br> <br>A spin-off series to the Peninsular War Saga. <br> <br> <br> <br>