A REGIMENTAL AFFAIR
Hervey's cavalry, guarding Regency Brighton and ambushing French smugglers in midnight coves, has vastly changed. Their new lieutenant colonel, Lord Towcester, is a cold-eyed martinet. . . vain, inept, and bigoted. . . who cares less for the welfare of his men than for keeping the shine on their gleaming brass buttons. Moreover, it soon becomes clear that he will stop at nothing to bring about Hervey's disgrace and downfall. For in this young officer, a war hero and former aide-de-camp to the Duke of Wellington, Towcester sees all that he himself once forfeited through cowardice. But the scandal that haunts Towcester is an old and secret one and to expose it would cost Hervey his rank, the command of his beloved Sixth and the means to support his radiant, passionate bride. Even the charming and determined Henrietta, not above a little politicking in high places to right wrongs, is unable to diplomatically put a stop to Towcester's vendetta.