Arranging an engagement to the infuriating Captain Harry Cathcart in order to escape her extradition to India, Lady Rose Summer finds the agreement complicated by a friend's untimely demise, a murder Rose's intended helps her to investigate.

"Lizzie, the youngest of the six haughty Beverley girls, has seen each of her sisters nearly marry for Mannerling, not for love. All were obsessed with regaining the exquisite seventeenth-century ancestral mansion that had been gambled away by their now-deceased father, Sir Beverley. In the end each girl followed true love and forgot about Mannerling."--BOOK JACKET. "Lizzie, however, has always been different from her sisters. Red-haired and saucy,...

When Sir Charles Digby, on whom Delilah Wraxall had a schoolgirl crush, returns from war, Delilah is determined to prove she's no longer interested by pursuing London's most unsuitable bachelor

A novel of Regency England. Being the sixth volume of "The School for Manners." Amy and Effy Tribble, chaperones-forhire look for a suitable match for their charge Harriet Brown. But Harriet has plans of her own.

Maria Kendall is stunningly beautiful, impeccably mannered, effortlessly graceful, in short, a perfect candidate for marriage. Thus all of polite London society is astonished that she is the latest charge of Amy and Effy Tribble, eccentric spinsters specializing in making matches for unmarriageable misses. But when Maria's suitors, among them the roguish and exceedingly aristocratic Duke of Berham, meet her vulgar and boorish parents, proposals of...

Wayward Edwardian debutante Lady Rose Summer becomes the prime suspect in the killing of Dolores Duval, the seductive new client of her fiancé, Captain Harry Cathcart, after a fit of jealousy leads her to threaten the woman

When a marriage proposal appears imminent for the beautiful-if rebellious-Lady Rose Summer, her father wants to know if her suitor's intentions are honorable. He calls on Captain Harry Cathcart, the impoverished younger son of a baron, to do some intelligence work on the would-be fiancé Sir Geoffrey Blandon. But when Harry is caught between his client's desire for discretion and his suspicion that murder may have been committed, he enlists the help...