When a merchant's daughter inherits a fortune, it brings a heap of trouble and a chance at love in this charming Edwardian romance.
Ginny Bloggs is as shocked as anyone. A wealthy man she's never met has left her a fortune and a magnificent country estate. Too bad the man's disgruntled relatives are part of the bargain. Charged with instructing Ginny in the ways of polite society, the quartet of querulous schemers have other plans in mind for her.
The handsome Lord Gerald de Fremney is around to keep the unruly relatives in line. But he soon learns that there is more to Ginny than what so pleasingly meets the eye. As delicate as a china doll, she's also bold as brass. And now she's going to teach them all what it meant to be a lady ...
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M.C. Beaton is the pen name of bestselling novelist Marion Chesney. She is a prolific writer of historical romances and small village mysteries. Born in Scotland, the author began her writing career as a fiction buyer for a Glasgow bookstore and has worked as a theater critic, newspaper reporter, and editor.
The author has written under various names, most notably as M.C. Beaton for her Hamish Macbeth and Agatha Raisin series. She also has written under the names Sarah Chester, Helen Crampton, Ann Fairfax, Marion Gibbons, Jennie Tremaine, and Charlotte Ward.
The author lived in the United States, but now splits her time between the Cotswolds, England and Paris, France.