All Rights Reserved The right of Lyndsey Norton to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All the characters in this publication are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead is purely coincidental. Createspace and Lesnor Enterprises ISBN-13: 978-1481821872 ISBN-10: 1481821873 Prologue Badajoz April 1812 ‘It would be an unfortunate place to die!’ Captain Richard Dunsmore shouted over the deafening guns. He was twenty eight years old and the third son of an Earl. But his exalted bloodlines wouldn’t stop him from dying this night. He scraped his hand through his thick, wavy dark brown hair and looked over at his compatriot with his blue eyes flashing in the flickering light. ‘I don’t know whether I can even move.’ Captain Charles Stafford said through gritted teeth, the red hot shot from the grapeshot burning in his thigh and back. He’d already had to discard his flaming tunic.
