She's an orphan waiting for a hero on horseback. He's a sniper grimly fulfilling his duty. Their marriage was arranged when they were children. That doesn't mean they have to like it.

A Gilded Age novella series from Constance Kent:

Eight years in an orphanage hadn't diminished Delphine Butterwick's faith that one day her true love would show up on a white horse and rescue her. Until he shows up. 

Captain Thomas Morrow isn't anything like the knight-in-shining she had been dreaming of since her parents died and Tom isn't much happier with Delphine. She's the same insensible child he remembered—only now she is an impractical young woman that he is duty-bound to marry.

A sniper with the French Foreign Legion, Tom tells Delphine he's given up on war. At his family cottage on Long Island, Delphine begins to believe a knight might not always have a white horse and a cape. He might sometimes be an ordinary man who will never leave her.

Tom might have given up on war, but war has not given up on Tom. What was once a way out of their arranged marriage, is now a heart-wrenching problem.