Dora and Colonel Sir Edward Ware:
Dora is the only daughter of Pittsburgh Robber Baron Winthrop Benley, President of Benley Tire and Rubber. She and her parents book a passage on the Lusitania on May 1, 1915, the last voyage of that ocean liner. It is sunk by a German torpedo. All row ashore to meet Edward’s father, Sir Adolphus Ware, President of Adolphus Motors, over a tire deal. Dora and Edward become engaged. Edward is already hiding Lawrence maps for his friend and mentor, T. E. Lawrence. Dora joins him as they fight off the Germans who want to steal the maps, key to world domination, at any cost. Dora wants to get revenge for her friends who died in the Lusitania sinking. Edward wants to work in secret with Winston Churchill, the backbencher, to defend England first against the Kaiser and then against the Nazis. Dora and Edward Ware are the hero and heroine of the Edward Ware Thrillers At War Series.