By Amanda Scott
Two daring, self sustaining sisters locate love with noblemen they despise
When her mom and dad passed on to the great beyond and her older brother went lacking in the USA, girl Meriel Traherne needed to depart her loved property in Wales to escort her rebellious more youthful sister to a faculty in France. She had no inspiration of the hazards she may stumble upon during this overseas land, and she or he definitely by no means anticipated assistance from Sir Anthony Davies, the type of stylish gentleman she had regularly despised. but, because the fragile peace among France and England threatens to break down, dependent Sir Anthony will shock her by way of saving her lifestyles and perilous to scouse borrow her heart.
Six years later, Meriel’s sister, woman Gwyneth, is in her family’s London townhouse whilst her good friend omit Pamela Beckley arrives, begging for aid. Her cousin and parent, the Earl of Lyford, refuses to permit Pamela to have fun her Season in London, and Pamela fears that the it seems that impoverished Earl intends to marry her himself to safe her massive fortune. Gwyneth vows to do all she will to avoid the smug Earl from achieving his wishes. but if he turns his fabulous appeal on her, Gwyneth is thrown through her personal startling desires—and the surprising cognizance that it’s she, no longer Pamela, whom the Earl intends to marry.
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