An Unlikely Suitor

A young woman disappears. A husband is suspected of murder.
Stirring times for all the neighborhood.

At twenty-three and a bluestocking to boot, Miss Lavender Brabant
feels her chances of marriage have passed her by. But the problem
isn't that she's never met a man to make her pulse race. It's that
she's an admiral's daughter—and the man of her dreams is a
shopkeeper's son.

Barnabas Hammond has the looks and confidence to mingle with all
circles of society. And to Lavender's amazement he is both well-read
and a superlative swordsman. Could it be that this unlikely suitor is
more suitable than he at first appears?