Soldier Rhys Morgan is back home in England and in the market for a bride.

But battle-scarred and jaded from the Peninsula wars, the simpering debutantes on the Marriage Mart don't seem able to rouse his interest - let alone fire his blood. . . Dark-haired, dark-eyed Romany beauty Nadya Argentari, has a strength and passion to match his own.

If he took her as his mistress, no one would blink an eye. But what if Honourable Major Rhys Morgan were to marry her. . .