Loving protector

En route to London for the Season, Calista Haywood and her family are saved from a highwayman by the dashing Brook Windebank. Later, when he valiantly steps in to prevent an unpleasant earl from claiming Calista as his wife, she fears that Brook is only being chivalrous and will never love her as she loves him. Then, when Brook is attacked and lying close to death, she is forced to pit her wits against his mercurial father, the Duke of Midchester.