The Honour Series by Joan Vincent

The Honour’s Series is set in England, in France, and on the Peninsula during the Napoleonic Wars. Each novel in the seven-book series averages 100-110,000 words. Five British cavalry officers who served together in the Peninsula with General Sir John Moore find their lives, and those of their future brides, interwoven with the exploits of quixotic émigré Andre Ribeymon, Baron de la Croix, as he pursues the amoral French spy, Donatien--a man of many guises.

Book 1: HONOUR’S DEBT 90,000 words Completed

Maddie Vincouer conceals her father’s death in 1809 after promising to save her family from Cousin Sanford’s greed. A Riding Officer’s persistence endangers this pretence with his demands to meet her father. Chance reveals her secret to the cruel French spy Donatien.

Matters go completely awry when Maddie aids a wounded "free trader." Unknown to her, the free trader is Major Quentin Bellaport. He has accepted an assignment to pursue a spy in order to meet and repay the debt owed for his life to Maddie’s cousin Jamey by wedding her.

Sanford’s appearance and demand Maddie marry him, the Riding Officer's hunt for the free trader, Bellaport’s pursuit of the French spy, and he and Maddie falling in love hasten a final confrontation between all.

Maddie faces a funeral, a wedding, kidnappings, and a deadly encounter on a moonlit beach. In a desperate attempt to save her Bellaport enlists the help of Baron de la Croix and rolls the dice on all their lives.

Book 2: HONOUR’S CHOICE 110,000 words Completed

1809 England. To protect his foster brother, Baron de la Croix, young Hadleigh Tarrant joins him in the hunt for government bullion thieves. Captured and tortured by their leader Donatien, Hadleigh is left to die.

Lady Sarah Edgerton, a frumpy middle-aged widow, nurses the critically injured Hadleigh when he is found near her home despite the danger to her reputation.

Their hearts choose each other, but Hadleigh is haunted by the tragedy of his parent’s marriage and fears that love will cause him pain worse than that of any torture. Lady Sarah, trapped by the years between them and a secret that would turn him from her forever, tries to hide her love and do what is best for Hadleigh by giving him up.

Donatien reappears determined on purloining military secrets. The malicious French spy is also intent upon a revenge that threatens Sarah and Hadleigh’s growing love and their very lives. Hadleigh must discover the spy’s identity before he and Lady Sarah can decide between dishonour and

HONOUR’S CHOICE

Book 3: HONOUR’S COMPROMISE 100,000 words Completed

Lt. James Vincouer, seared first by her beauty and them her hauteur, brands Cecilia Mayer-Boden the “Glacier” during Moore’s campaign in Spain in 1808. In 1810 Jamey meets Cecilia disguised as a Spanish beauty. Her passion reminds him too vividly of his never forgotten first love.

Cecilia, intent upon concealing her dead mother’s insanity, crosses swords with Jamey to fend off her growing love for him. Though unable to tolerate her independence, Jamey cannot stay away. When her life is threatened by a Spanish counteragent who discovers her secret courier duty, Jamey’s intervention results in he and Cecilia’s battle-fraught marriage.

When family illness forces the newlyweds to travel to England desire weaves a spell that awakens hope for their love. But the spy Donatien awaits, determined to seize Cecilia and the information she carries unknown to her husband. When she flees to prevent an attack on Jamey, Donatien captures her.

Aided by the Donatien’s arch enemy, Baron de la Croix, Jamey searches for Cecilia hoping for one last rescue and the chance to win her. But Donatien means to succeed and there may be no time for

HONOUR’S COMPROMISE

Book 4: HONOUR’S REDEMPTION 105,000 words Completed

Captain Lucian Merristorm continues a guilt ridden downward spiral when unfairly forced to sell out of the 15th Hussars. After a night out with a man who harbors a secret vendetta against him, a heavily drugged Lucian regains consciousness in a coach halfway to Yorkshire . Lucian, who sought death in vain on the battlefields of Spain , is furious to find it has eluded him once again.

Ruth Clayton bartered a post for her father in far away Yorkshire after the loss of his preferment due to failing memory. When Lucian is thrown into the mail coach with them in London Ruth is appalled by her attraction to the wastrel. In Whitby she takes a badly beaten Lucian into the vicarage. Her attraction turns to love despite his every effort to turn it to disgust.

Unknown to both their arrival in Whitby thrusts a spoke in a French spy’s plan to smuggle weapons and gold concealed in tunnels beneath the vicarage to France . When Lucian’s enemy unites with the spy, Lucian faces the bitter reality that death may triumph even as it becomes the last thing he seeks. Ruth must reach deep into her heart to offer him

HONOUR’S REDEMPTION