...well played Diana Quincy!
Engaging the Earl (Accidental Peers #4) by Diana Quincy Edward Stanhope, a second son, a talented musician, having been refused Kat's hand in marriage, determines to join the army, make his fortune and return home to marry his true love. Kitty (Kat), Lady Katherine Granville, 16 years old, knowing whom and what she wants, tries to persuade Edward to flee to Gretna Green. Honestly, I wasn't sure here whether to applaud her here or see her a a spoilt young lady determined to have her way. Edward, honourable and focused goes to war instead. Kat, seething with anger and hurt remains behind to become the toast of the ton. Six years pass and just as Kitty or rather it seems now Kat, has deigned to marry Laurie, Viscount Lawrence Sinclair, 'Sin' to his friends, Rand returns! Now a decorated war hero, a survivor of Talavera, and having been given an earldom by the King, Kat first sights the man she has never forgotten on the occassion of her engagement to Sin...