Second to None: A Military Romance, Volume 1 (of 3)
On his eighteenth birthday, Basil Gauntlet loses everything: his inheritance, his name, his place in the world. Disinherited and left with nothing but his ambition, he makes a choice that will reshape his entire existence. He enlists in the Scots Greys, the legendary cavalry regiment whose thundering charge at Waterloo passed into legend. What follows is a young man's ruthless education in military life, masculine hierarchy, and the hard-won dignity that comes from earning rather than inheriting. But the army offers more than discipline and danger. It offers the possibility of love, and the chance to prove that a man's worth is measured not by the blood he was born with, but by the courage he finds in himself. This is Victorian adventure at its most muscular: a story of social downfall and hard-won redemption, of uniforms and honor, of a boy becoming a man through the only currency that matters in the regiment: valor.
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