It's almost 10pm on the night of Monday, December 8th, 1941. The White House, the residence of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, has finally calmed down since the Pearl Harbor attack brought unceasing chaos to the US Government Sunday afternoon and all today, until about half a hour ago. Finally, peace and quiet, despite the fact the United States of America had declared war today on the Empire of Japan.
President Roosevelt was trying to relax in his office with camel cigarettes and his own version of a martini cocktail. As ten o'clock chimed away on the White House Grandfather clocks, there was a knock on the door and entered a Colonel War Cloud. Harry Hopkins, the President's Chief Advisor, had set up a late night meeting between the President and the Colonel to discuss a special project President Roosevelt wanted to activate immediately.
That project is The Intruders, a special international commando team operating under the guidance of a newly formed international organization, the President would soon be calling the United Nations. The Intruders mission, based on the three D's, is to Detect enemy secret weapons facility locations, Determine enemy secret weapons potentiality, and Destroy enemy secret weapons programs before such wonder weapons are released onto the battlefield or used on targeted cities.
General War Cloud would select top Commandos from around the World and train his Intruders, Team 52, in the Arizona desert and then prepare for their first mission against the Japanese called Operation Rookie.
Just when she's decided to leave the Town, Lady Cressida Belverst is forced to marry Lord Calan Haverston, the man who coincidentally knows a way out. Agreeing to marry for all the wrong reasons, can Cressida and Calan find out where their hearts truly belong?
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It is impossible to leave the Town, but one woman is determined to escape with the help of her betrothed.
Lady Cressida Belverst has always been judged as a walking scandal. Oh, how she tries (on some rare occasions) to be proper! When her parents arrange for her to marry a rich lord, Cressida has had enough. She has to leave the Town because she will not be forced to live with a man she doesn't love. But what happens if the very man she's betrothed to is the only one who can help her get out?
Calan Haverston, the Lord of Easton, takes the risk and helps his betrothed by using his knowledge of the Town's secrets because he is as willing as she to stay free of marriage for reasons completely different. He has dark secrets he cannot share with her, and his life is not one he can likewise open to anyone. But what happens when she leaves after awakening desires he thought he has under control? And what happens when he finds himself longing for her?
Cressida goes to a completely different place, one she has only heard in stories and read in books, with hopes of finding what her heart has always longed for. But love, mystery and secrets will chase her and it will only be a matter of time before she realizes what her heart truly desires.
*This story is a standalone title in the Haverston Family series.