HIS CAVALRY LADYBook 1 of Aikenhead Honours seriesDominic Aikenhead, Duke of Calder-rich, handsome, a power in the land. And a spy.In the summer of 1814, Europe's crowned heads come to London to celebrate the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte. Dominic, Duke of Calder, nominally the British liaison officer to the Russian Emperor, has a more important, secret role. As a spy. For Tsar Alexander is believed to be plotting against England's interests.Dominic strikes up a friendship with Captain Alexei Alexandrov, a decorated Hussar and the youngest officer on Alexander's staff. Dominic is troubled, both by the enigmatic Russian captain and by the memory of a mysterious lady he held in his arms only a few weeks before. She disappeared like smoke, but she haunts him, first as a Frenchwoman and then as a passionate lady from Scotland. Even with the help of the rest of the Aikenhead Honours spying band, Dominic cannot fully resolve the puzzles his mysterious lady presents. When he is sent to Russia in the wake of the Tsar and his entourage, Dominic has to operate alone.Can he find the answers he is seeking in that alien land?Revised edition of the novel originally published by Harlequin S.A. in 2008 Joanna Maitland published 13 Regency historicals with Harlequin Mills & Boon which have sold well over a million copies around the world, with readers in countries as diverse as Japan and Brazil. She is now an independently published author. She is continuing to write Regencies, but also hopping over the hedge into lush new pastures, like medieval romance, time-slip and fantasy. Her latest droolworthy hero -- coming soon -- is a vampire who solves mysteries on the side, with help from a couple of female sidekicks.Joanna is one of the founding partners of Libertà Books where there is a blog every Sunday. Joanna herself blogs about twice a month on all sorts of subjects from Regency costume to self-publishing and formatting your book.Read more about Joanna at libertabooks.com/joanna. The blogs are at libertabooks.com/blog. Joanna's books can be found via Books2Read.com/JoannaMaitland.
