[Honour 01] • Honour's Debt

Maddie Vincouer conceals her father’s death in 1809 after promising to save her family from Cousin Sanford’s greed. A Riding Officer endangers this pretense with his insistent demands to meet her father. Then chance reveals her secret to the cruel French spy Donatien.

Matters go completely awry when Maddie aids a wounded "free trader". Unknown to her, the free trader is Major Quentin Bellaport, Viscount Broyal. He has accepted an assignment to pursue a spy in order to repay the debt owed for his life to Maddie's cousin Jamey by wedding her.

Sanford's appearance and demand Maddie marry him, the Riding Officer's hunt for the free trader, Bellaport’s pursuit of the French spy, and he and Maddie falling in love hasten a final confrontation between all. Maddie faces in rapid succession a funeral, a wedding, kidnappings, and a deadly encounter on a moonlit beach. In a desperate attempt to save her Bellaport enlists the help of Baron de la Croix and rolls the dice on the fate of all their lives. If they survive will Maddie forgive his deceit. Will she believe she is not a pawn to his Honour’s Debt?