The Toll-Gate - Georgette Heyer by Georgette Heyer
Captain John Staples exploits against Napoleons armies in the Iberian Peninsula have earned him the nickname Crazy Jack amongst his comrades in the Dragoon Guards - but once the Battle of Waterloo brings the curtain down once and for all on the Napoleonic Wars, the boisterous, adventure-loving captain finds life in peacetime intolerably dull., When the captain finds himself lost in the Pennines, he takes refuge at an unmanned toll-house. Its there that he encounters a woman of extraordinary qualities - and suddenly, his soldiering days pale away next to the adventure, and the romance of a lifetime.
Novel
The Toll-Gate - Georgette Heyer
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Category: Novel
Tags: Novel, Historical Fiction, Romance, Adults
Captain John Staples exploits against Napoleons armies in the Iberian Peninsula have earned him the nickname Crazy Jack amongst his comrades in the Dragoon Guards - but once the Battle of Waterloo brings the curtain down once and for all on the Napoleonic Wars, the boisterous, adventure-loving captain finds life in peacetime intolerably dull., When the captain finds himself lost in the Pennines, he takes refuge at an unmanned toll-house. Its there that he encounters a woman of extraordinary qualities - and suddenly, his soldiering days pale away next to the adventure, and the romance of a lifetime.
