The Toll-Gate by Georgette Heyer

Captain John Staple’s exploits against Napoleon’s armies in the Iberian Peninsula have earned him the nickname ‘Crazy Jack’ amongst his comrades in the Dragoon Guards – but once the Battle of Waterloo brings the curtain down once and for all on the Napoleonic Wars, the boisterous, adventure-loving Captain finds life in peacetime intolerably dull.

When the Captain finds himself lost in the Pennines, he takes refuge at an unmanned toll-house. It’s there that he encounters a woman of extraordinary qualities – and suddenly, his soldiering days pale away next to the adventure, and the romance, of a lifetime…