To Have and To Hold

📖 The Scoop

She's an orphan waiting for a hero on horseback. He's a sniper grimly fulfilling his duty. Their marriage was arranged when they were children. That doesn't mean they have to like it.

A Gilded Age novella series from Constance Kent:

Eight years in an orphanage hadn't diminished Delphine Butterwick's faith that one day her true love would show up on a white horse and rescue her. Until he shows up. 

Captain Thomas Morrow isn't anything like the knight-in-shining she had been dreaming of since her parents died and Tom isn't much happier with Delphine. She's the same insensible child he remembered--only now she is an impractical young woman that he is duty-bound to marry.

A sniper with the French Foreign Legion, Tom tells Delphine he's given up on war. At his family cottage on Long Island, Delphine begins to believe a knight might not always have a white horse and a cape. He might be an ordinary man who will never leave her. 

What started out a failure, might wind up being the best mistake their parents ever made.

Genre: Fiction / Romance / Historical / Gilded Age (fancy, right?)