If you’ve read even one book in the Barrington’s Brigade series, you’ve met him.

He’s not the hero of the romance, but he’s always in the middle of things. Calm in chaos. Unshakable when others falter. With one glance or one quiet word, Reese Barrington can bring a roomful of dukes to order, and if you ask his fellow Brigade officers, they wouldn’t have it any other way.

But before there was a brigade, before there was war, there was a duke at a crossroads… and a woman who changed everything....