The Toll-Gate: Georgette Heyer

If you love Bridgerton, you`ll love Georgette Heyer!

Captain John Staple`s exploits against Napoleon`s armies in the Spanish Peninsula have earned him the nickname `Crazy Jack` amongst his comrades in the Dragoon Guards.

But once the Battle of Waterloo brings the Napoleonic Wars to a decisive end, the adventure-loving Captain finds life in peacetime intolerably dull.

When he finds himself lost in the Pennines, he takes refuge at an unmanned toll-house.

It`s there that he encounters a lady of extraordinary qualities - and suddenly, his soldiering days pale in comparison to a new adventure in which he must rescue a woman and investigate a scandalous murder ...