It had seemed rather harmless at the time On their way to London for the Season, Anne Southwell and her ward were waylaid by a sudden storm and sought shelter at the nearby estate of Lord Henry Stanton. Anne was not especially surprised to disc...
Had she been foolish to hope for more than friendship? When Captain Edward Tremaine returned from the Peninsular War, the first sight to greet his weary eyes was the natural beauty of Miss Jane Hampton tending to her English country garden. Dr...
SHE fixed his interest but lost her heart Society was all a flutter when a Scottish laird came to Town to choose himself an English bride. Miss Phoebe Hartwell found herself among the contenders, but she fancied her chances to be prodigiously sli...
Henrietta Biddle’s first season was not going well. She made all the social mistakes a country miss could, and handsome Lord Wakeford, though he found her faux pas almost endearing, cynically commented on her various failings. Hetty was an heiress ...
Elisabeth Ashwood is quite content with her quiet country life and has no desire to alter it, but she finds her whole life changing when circumstances dictate that she agree to a betrothal to the son of a family friend. Their re-acquaintance, however...
Miss Catherine Trevor is quite happy with her life at her father’s estate of Rosemont and does not regret choosing to remain unmarried at the advanced age of nine and twenty. But a visit from her brother, his peevish wife and ill-mannered children ...