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Stand and Deliver your Heart

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Neil, the handsome Earl of Wynstock, is expected back from the English Army of Occupation in France where he has been with the Duke of Wellington since the Battle of Waterloo. And the people of his estate, Wyn Park, await his return to them impatiently.

Vanda Charlton, his beautiful childhood neighbour, waits with more concern than the others because, unbeknown to anyone else, a dangerous gang of highwaymen have moved into the West wing of the Earl’s ancestral home after intimidating and threatening the caretaker and his wife.

Vanda fears that on the Earl’s return the highwaymen will capture him and hold him to ransom.

Intercepting him at a local inn, she warns the Earl and persuades him to enlist the support of the soldiers at the local Barracks. But before the Military can implement their plan of action, the ruthless renegades kidnap Vanda, threatening to kill her if they do not receive one thousand pounds by the next morning.

Disguised in a highwayman’s mask, the Earl arrives in the enemy’s woodland camp in the dead of night with a cunning plan to rescue Vanda. Posing as another highwayman he enlists the local Parson and stages a Wedding claiming that he is marrying Vanda for her huge fortune, which he promises to share with the villains.

Little do they, or even Vanda herself, know that he is as deeply in love with Vanda as she is with him.

And that this marriage is completely legal and utterly real!clean

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AUTHOR’S NOTE
AUTHOR’S NOTEIt was in the eighteenth century that the highwayman became the greatest menace so that no main road was safe for a traveller. But he was also thought to be a romantic. In actual fact, however, few of them were anything but the very worst type of criminal, who would murder or torture their victims. There were, as I have told in this novel, a few wellborn highwaymen, who came from much respected families and had been educated at public schools. William Parsons was a Baronet’s son, who was educated at Eton and was commissioned in the Royal Navy. Simon Clarke was a Baronet in his own right but became a highwayman. They behaved much better than d**k Turpin, the most romanticised of all highwaymen, who was both brutal and unscrupulous. Some highwaymen escaped the gallows, but the majority were hanged at Tyburn, which, until the end of the eighteenth century, was the most uncivilised sight. Tyburn was where Marble Arch is now situated and close to Hyde Park. There would be thousands in the crowd assembled to witness the hangings with the gentry sitting in the expensive seats, which were close to the gallows. The mob, who could not afford the closest view, fought fiercely for the best places. Spectators often had their limbs broken and some were even killed in the crush. Apart from this, Tyburn was a well known fairground with sideshows and street vendors offering their wares. In 1789 the gallows were moved from Tyburn to the courtyard of the Old Bailey. But a hanging was still open to the public and matters were not very much improved.

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