Description: The Bastion Club grew from the background and action in Stephanie's first Avon novel, CAPTAIN JACK'S WOMAN. In that book, we get a first glimpse of the covert machinations that must have taken place behind the scenes in the days of the Peninsula military campaigns. The Bastion Club stories evolved as the answer to the question: How would a group of English gentlemen, all recently longtime secret agents disbanded after Waterloo, react when faced with a, to them, even bigger challenge - that of securing their wives? The right wife for each of them, not the silly flibbertigibbets society's matrons would foist upon them. These men are all used to command, to ruling their own lives - in the matter of a wife, they are all determined to make their own choice. And what if their task was made harder still by a fiendish fate that organized to make them the most hunted of the hunted in the year 1816 - if by conferring on each of them title, wealth and properties, they now rank among the most eligible gentlemen in the ton?