The Bedford Beauty

Alice is the beautiful, free spirited daughter of Sir William Fulton and an ambitious matchmaking Lady Fulton who wants to see her daughter marry into the aristocracy. Alice is content with this plan until her brother and his best friend, Blake Hadley, return from the Peninsula War. She is unprepared for Blake's transformation from youth to man, and is torn between duty and love when Blake, a farmer's son, awakens a passion in her she has never felt before.