Estranged from her husband through her failure to produce an heir, Lady Fieldhurst resolves to repay his neglect by taking a lover. Fate takes a hand when she and her paramour enter her bedroom and find Lord Fieldhurst lying on the floor--with her nail scissors protruding from his neck. Idealist...
Curate James Weatherly is resigned to a life of genteel poverty, never suspecting he is heir to a dukedom until a solicitor appears on his doorstep. On the way to claim his inheritance, James is set upon by footpads whose handiwork deprives him of his memory. Since the death of her father Margare...
Haughty Lady Helen Radney is one of London's most beautiful women
Now that Harry Hawthorne has inherited his father's title and estate, he feels it's high time he takes a wife. He chooses his childhood pal, Olivia Darby, because she's a mild-mannered girl who won't stand in the way of his pursuit of pleasure. Olivia feels it's too soon to marry and wants to hav...
Newlyweds Ethan and Lady Helen Brundy (The Weaver Takes a Wife) go to the seaside for a wedding trip, and find their honeymoon cottage filled with people -- including a disapproving dowager, a young woman claiming to be Mr. Brundy's sister, and a skeptical dandy determined to expose her as an imp...
Molly's brother, Mark, has a bet going that klutzy Gary will take the most popular girl to the prom. To help him win the bet, Mark convinces Molly to try and transform Gary into a dashing ladies' man. Molly reluctantly takes on the task and is amazed when Gary turns into a first-class hunk. Will ...
Every muscle in his body throbbed; picking pockets in Covent Garden might be dangerous, but there was no denying it was a much easier way to earn one’s bread than hauling coal. The thought of bread propelled him from the cot. He rose and dressed as quickly as his aching arms would allow, filling ...
I asked. Spinning around on the kitchen bar stool, I shifted the telephone receiver from my right ear to my left and put my hand over my ear to block the sounds of the television blaring in the next room. “I’m going to the movies with Brian,” my best friend’s voice came through the receiver. “Do ...
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN, The School for Scandal As the first of Susannah’s new gowns would not be ready for several days, Jane determined to alter one of her own dresses to fit her cousin. The selection of a suitable dress proved to be quite a challenge, since Susannah was (as Madame Lavert h...
“That’s it,” he announced to the half-dozen men assembled within Number 4 Bow Street, all of whom had spent the last half-hour watching the clock with various degrees of imperfectly concealed impatience. “Mr. Dixon?” A grizzled man only a few years younger than the magistrate stepped up to the be...