title: The Captain and His Innocent
author:  Lucy Ashford 
description: Lucy Ashford, an English Studies lecturer, graduated in English with history at Nottingham University,and the Regency is her favourite period. Lucy, who has always loved to immerse herself in historical romances, has had several novels published, but this is her first for Mills and Boon. She lives with her husband in an old stone cottage in the Peak District, near to beautiful Chatsworth House and Haddon Hall, all of which give her a taste of the magic of life in a bygone age
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  When Emma Chance met her best friend's elder brother, she knew instantly that
  he needed somebody to put the bounce back in his boots.
  
  But it couldn't be her, of course. She wouldn't know where to start.
  
  Against the odds, Emma Chance survived a childhood of cruelty and neglect.
  She's never had time for fairytales or Prince Charming and, as a young woman
  with a logical mind, her preference is for tidy facts over messy feelings. But
  with one glance from his dark eyes, Captain Guy Hathaway causes poor Emma a
  bundle of the latter and turns her cautious world on its head.
  
  To him she is nothing more than his little sister's shy, awkward friend, and
  she wouldn't know what to do with herself, in any case, if he ever looked at
  her as anything more than that.
  
  But there's something about Captain Hathaway...
  
  * * * *
  
  The charismatic captain has a reputation for trouble. Brawls, duels and
  dangerous women litter his past. With a mischievous sense o