And she takes drastic, shocking action to avoid it … The London Season! Glittering balls, society, handsome beaus. Her twin Marguerite is having her own romance problems, and their male relatives, Papa and George, are making things worse as usual. Leonora ignores all her own suitors, in relentless pursuit of Foggy, but is shaken by the arrival of someone determined to catch Foggy herself: his childhood friend, Mary Du Maurier. And Leonora might be the only chance to get the marriage shy Foggy wed. But the dance between the two is entertaining to watch.
Why such a lovely thing should prefer the shrinking (but kind) Carswell, is a complete mystery. His extreme measures of self-preservation, once Leonora arrives in Town, amuse his family and friends- until they begin to see that the little beauty is serious. She first met him at her home, Castle Fortune, three years ago, and now at seventeen, has arrived to claim her prize.īut Foggy Carswell does not want to be claimed, and has lived in vague fear of the child who once threatened him with the Parson’s Noose. Leonora, one of two beautiful Fortune twins newly arrived in Town for their Season, had one aim in view: The Honourable Linton Carswel l. That was three years ago, and now she has come. ‘Remember Mr Carstairs,’ said the determined fourteen-year-old, Leonora Fortune, ‘I’m coming for you!’ Even if Marguerite may learn survival, but lose her heart.Ī romantic comedy, with characters from The Sisters of Castle Fortune series, plus the cast of Delphine and the Dangerous Arrangement, in a tale of fated, or perhaps foolish, love.
Her bright compassionate nature is hard to resist, as is her astounding beauty, but the duke is determined. An old friend appears dressed as a groom, she meets a princess, a marquis, colludes with servants and risks her life to save another. It forces them into extreme situations, and soon she is enmeshed in kidnap, plots, affairs, and perhaps even murder.
The duke in disguise (Leo) teams up with Marguerite to investigate a conspiracy for the succession. At an inn, pining for Leonora, Marguerite meets another Leo, this time a man mountain who reluctantly saves her from harm.īut when Marguerite is abandoned at Dysart Manor to make a match with the pleasant Mr Randall Dysart, she is to meet her saviour once more.
one that concerns getting his last daughter wed. But Baron Fortune, her papa, has a diversion planned on the journey. Soon after her twin Leonora's marriage a bereft Marguerite Fortune is going home to Castle Fortune, with only her self serving male relatives for company. # 1 in Regency Hot New Releases on Amazon!!
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