Lieutenant Rick Redepenning has been saving his admiral's intrepid daughter from danger since their formative years, but today, he faces the gravest of threats—the damage she might do to his heart. How can he convince her to see him as a suitor, not just a childhood friend?Travelling with her father's fleet has left Mary Pritchard ill-prepared for London Society, and prey to the machinations of false friends. When she strikes out on her own to find a more suitable locale to take up her solitary spinsterhood, she finds adventure, trouble, and her girlhood hero, riding once more to her rescue.This novella first appeared in the Bluestocking Belles box set Mistletoe, Marriage, and Mayhem.