Lancaster's Choice

Lady Lancaster, a wealthy eighty‑year‑old widow, faces a dilemma: how to dispose of her considerable fortune after her death. With no children of her own, she looks to her young nephew, Captain Clive Lancaster, the new lord of a dwindling estate. She makes her intentions unmistakable—her inheritance will go to him only if he marries the young woman she has selected, and she summons him to Lancaster Park with a firm, almost threatening, invitation.

Clive, a career officer still devoted to his freedom, recoils at the prospect of a hurried marriage. When his adventurous friend Lieutenant Harry De Vere proposes an escape to America, Clive seizes the chance to postpone his aunt’s plans and experience the wider world. As he sets sail for the United States, the tension between duty, wealth, and personal desire promises a lively clash of expectations and aspirations.