The Sugar Mouse — Mary Ann Gibbs

England, 1906: When a girl's future--and the man she married--depended on her ancestry!

AN EDWARDIAN MYSTERY

Shy Kitty Ralston--the "Sugar Mouse" because she was so serious and quiet--fully expected to grow up and marry her dearest friend, Sydney Burke. But an undercurrent of gossip about her father's disappearance and death blighted her chance for any suitors--and perhaps for any future.

Rumor had it that here never was a Mr. Ralston, and now Kitty's mother had run away, taking the truth with her. And until Kitty could find the answers to her own past, no man would marry her...