Miss Rowland's Resolve — Samantha Holder

A LOVELY LIBRARIAN'S LAMENT!

Miss Gwyneth Rowland's heart was all aflutter. With her dear brother missing, and her greedy uncle firmly installed in the family mansion, the plucky young girl felt impelled to flee. But to become an unchaperoned lady in London -- it simply wasn't a la mode!

That was precisely what Professor Miles Bardsley, Lord Stanford, exclaimed when he found this raven-haired beauty hopelessly lost on a Mayfair street looking for Hook-ham's lending library. And to discover that she was the new librarian left him not only aghast but intrigued. Here was a serious lass with no patience for the frivolous fripperies of the Season, a young woman Stanford sorely wished to convince otherwise. His offer: to help her find her lost brother if Gwyneth went to balls and fetes -- and pretended to be his lady and his love!