The Braithwaite Letters — Sarah J. Waldock

The fifth book in the Brandon Scandals series, this book finds Marjorie Braithwaite, sister of Dinah/Diana in a predicament. Written as an epistolary novel, Marjorie is in a coach accident which becomes a turning point in her life, and co-incidentally beholden to one of the other men who answered Dinah's advertisement in the Advertised Bride. When she is subsequently widowed, life opens up for her, and for her children. Her children quickly become close friends with the children of the pleasant widower, Charles, who came to their rescue. As Charles and Marjorie continue to correspond, when Marjorie has gone to stay with her sister, Marjorie discovers a growing friendship with him. The complication is in why her late husband's solicitors should be trying to conceal Marjorie's financial status from her. Free for the first time in her life to make her own choices, Marjorie must learn to make choices, and accept freedom. And one of those choices is whether to marry again.