His Cavalry Lady Author:Joanna Maitland Alex is devoted solely to her Emperor. Tsar Alexander of Russia, until the day she meets Dominic Aikenhead, Duke of Calder, a widower who is determined to have nothing more to do with eligible women. He is kind and generous to Alex, but only because -- like everyone else -- he believes she is Alexei Alexandrov, a decorated captain in the Russian... more » cavalry!
Here, in England, they are on opposite sides. Alex has been brought to London as one of the Tsar's officers so that she can spy on the English. Dominic, the head of the Aikenhead Honours spying ring, is to act as the British liaison officer for the Tsar and his officers during their visit, and to spy on them at the same time. Alex and Dominic are thrown together, and often, but as man and man, not as the man and woman that Alex longs for them to be.
Alex has one slim chance to appear as a real, passionate woman, and to show Dominic what she feels, but will he repulse her? Might he even recognise who she is? If her female identity should ever become known, her whole future will lie in ruins. Does she dare to brave the risk of discovery, for love of Dominic Aikenhead?« less