The Toll-Gate - Georgette Heyer

Category: Adults, Historical Fiction, Novel, Romance
Language: EnglishKeywords: Historical Fiction Regency Romance
Written by Georgette Heyer
Read by Callum Hughes
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged
Captain John Staple’s exploits against Napoleon’s 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. It’s 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….
Captain John Staple’s exploits against Napoleon’s 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. It’s 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….