<p> Welcome to Spindle Cove, where the ladies with delicate constitutions come for the sea air, and men in their prime are . . . nowhere to be found. </p> <p> Or are they? </p> <p> Spindle Cove is the destination of choice for certain types of well-bred young ladies: the painfully shy, young wives disenchanted with matrimony, and young girls too enchanted with the wrong men; it is a haven for those who live there. </p> <p> Victor Bramwell, the new Earl of Rycliff, knows he doesn?t belong here. So far as he can tell, there?s nothing in this place but spinsters . . . and sheep. But he has no choice, he has orders to gather a militia. It?s a simple mission, made complicated by the spirited, exquisite Susanna Finch?a woman who is determined to save her personal utopia from the invasion of Bram?s makeshift army. </p> <p> Susanna has no use for aggravating men; Bram has sworn off interfering women. The scene is set for an epic battle?but who can be named the winner when both have so much to lose? </p>