Coming July 2008 The seventh book in the Boscastle Family series Sir Gabriel Boscastle, cavalry officer and dark knight of the Boscastle family, has returned home from Waterloo with every intention of resuming his life of pleasure. Luck appears to encourage his wicked pursuits when he wins a country estate on his first night back in London. The prospect of country life bores him, however. He intends to unload the pile by using it as a pawn in another card game. Little does he know that his disapproving neighbor is his first childhood infatuation, Lady Alethea Claridge. He recognizes her the moment he sees her again, but can only hope she doesn't remember him. They’d met only once when he was being punished in the village pillory for misconduct, and she had defied her father -- the entire village, in fact -- to champion him. The last Gabriel had heard, his unattainable lady was engaged to a respectable earl's son, the sort of man Gabriel would never be. Alethea Claridge thought she was safe from dangerous gentlemen like Gabriel Boscastle. She’d tried to help him once, years ago, only to be rebuffed for her efforts. Now she has withdrawn to her brother’s estate, hoping to heal from the disillusionment of broken dreams. Resigned to her ruined status, she doesn’t know what to make of the disreputable horseman who comes thundering through her isolation one summer night to challenge everything she believes about love, and what it takes to be a hero. She certainly cannot imagine how that troubled boy from her past, a gambler and rakehell, will restore her ability to trust her own heart again. Ballantine Books June 24, 2008 ISBN-10: 0345503937 ISBN-13: 978-0345503930