The Captain of Her Fate by Nina Mason

“Excitement fluttered in Louisa’s belly. She was indeed eager to hear news of the new tenant of Greystone Hall. Rumor had it he was a man of means and, all the better, a bachelor. Was he also handsome and affable like Mr.Bingley? Or was he proud and standoffish like Mr. Darcy? Either way, she had already made up her mind to marry the gentleman.”

Captain Theobald Raynalds lost his leg at the Battle of Trafalgar and with it, his belief any woman could find him unobjectionable enough to love.

Louisa Bennet finds Theo incredibly attractive–both as a man in his own right and as an alternative to the odious cousin her heartless father has arranged for her to marry.

First, however, she must convince the Captain her interest in him stems from the man he is, scars and all, and not on his being the lesser of evils . . .