A Different Face — Joan Mellows

Thea was a beauty and a spitfire. A first-rate mind, too. Better than most of the men she encountered.

She might have gone on forever a spinster - content with her books - except that fate stepped in, in the shape of Georgina, a terrified young girl in need of a friend.

Suddenly out of the blue Georgina's dashing rogue of a father appeared to claim his daughter. For the first time in her life, Thea had met her match...