A New Regency Romance just published
Isabella Radcliffe is a lady but has no dowry. She is forced to seek employment as a governess and companion to an old lady at a Cornish estate, while many young men of her class are away at the Peninsular Wars. But she finds herself restless and bored and seeks relief from her boredom in dangerous riding and swimming alone. She knows that she is not suited to such a life and fears dismissal. Courtland Helston, her employer’s cousin, is a young man of modest fortune and wild habits. He is always in debt, in trouble for seducing bored wives, flirting with debutantes, and gambling and wasting his time. He needs a wife, to keep him up to the mark and to help him win the favour of his rich cousin. But will a marriage of convenience work out? What if one of the parties falls in love? Will their society friends separate them?
It is a passionate tale of 2 people who don’t like each other much at first, but who are almost forced to come together. How they learn to love and live together. But in the cool heartless world of Regency society, there are pitfalls. Will Court’s mistresses continued to woo and attract him? Will Isabella become vain and succumb to the advances of an admirer? Will they eventually leanr to understand each other?
