A Matter of Chance
England. 1812.
The Stark family, disinherited by circumstance, come to a quiet village in Devon to grieve the passing of Ned and to rebuild their life upon nothing but two hundred pounds per annum. However. With a young woman whose taste for knights fades when faced with a Byronic anti-hero, a solemn-eyed reverend who may never love anything more than books, a guilt-struck lord who does terrible things for the greatest of causes, and a young and strangely whiskerless lieutenant who, unknown to his dashing major, is not as he seems, how could anyone even consider the village to be boring?
A tale of war, pic-nics, barouche-landaus, Spaniards, smuggling, shipwrecks, Byronic poetry, gossip, and, above all, romance.