Excerpt from Masks of Desire, a Regency Prequel Story

Chapter 1

July 9, 1792, London

Henry Gardner was on his way to stop a wedding.

Not the actual wedding, mind you. Although he was prepared to dash into the church shouting “I object!” if he must.

He hoped it would not come to that. He still had roughly twenty-four hours before a debacle in a church would be necessary.

If all went well, Caroline Laird would never arrive at the church at all. Unless it were a small church in the village of Gretna Green.

Now he just had to figure o...