Palace Huston, Her Father's Daughter takes place in the Regency Era.  What is expected, does not materialize, and what materializes is not what is expected.  Eveland Gant is better known as "Rinsmere" or the Most Honorable the Marquess of Rinsmere, a peer, a man, and a warrior operative in France.  Palace Huston, his ward through the unfortunate circumstances of her father's untimely death, is not just a young woman or even a responsibility; she is her father's daughter, the single offspring of a fellow warrior Sir Colson Huston.  As the daughter of an English adventurer, who spent an appreciable amount of time in the Colonies, she is everything a son could be but she is a daughter.  Colson is called back to England to join in the French "situation" with Rinsmere and others.  Unfortunately, Sir Colson is murdered along with a woman he won in a card game in Philadelphia in order to save her life.  Before her death, that woman became a tutor of life to Colson's daughter, Palace, and makes her starkly aware of herself in many ways.   Per an agreement between co-adventurers, Eveland Gant and Colson Huston, Rinsmere becomes the guardian of Huston's daughter, but things do not always work out the way things are expected to work out, and the young girl falls in love with him, but manages to conceal her feelings from both him an dhis family and friends.  This awkward arrangement matures as she is selected to be announced as his fiancée in order to thwart the efforts of another woman bent on capturing the Marquess.  The political situation eventually reaches the social scene in London and subtracts Palace in an extraordinary way: she is kidnapped and taken to France.  The captured girl eventually has to free not only herself but alsothe very heroes sent to save her, a unique twist.  The rest becomes a form of romance founded on strife and challenge.  Enjoy Palace Huston, Her Father's Daughter.  This novel is based on a Regency Romance novel written by my wife, Elizabeth, many years ago.  It was entitled Her Father's Daughter.

 

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