Gwendeline // Earl to the Rescue — Jane Ashford

Penniless! Gwendeline, just 18 and totally unsuited to earn her own way in the world, was to be evicted from her country estate.

Then the butler ushered in a tall, rather arrogant visitor. Lord Merryn. He had, it seemed, been a friend of her late parents, who had lived too well and too briefly -- squandering their fortune and then meeting death in a carriage accident.

But Gwendeline was an older orphan than Lord Merryn had expected; she was a young lady and must be introduced to London society. Quickly, he invented a "group of her parents' friends" to finance her debut.

Never must she learn that he alone was her benefactor -- nor why.

Hero: Alex St. Audley, Earl of Merryn
Heroine: Gwendeline Gregory