Owing to an unfortunate wager made by Sir Philip, the poor relations are once again scrounging around for a plan for solvency. This time it is Colonel Sandhurst to the rescue. After happening on...

Destined for Dover, Miss Pym has her matchmaking work cut out for her when she encounters the pretty but hoydenish Lady Deborah Western! Encouraged by an unruly twin brother, the spirited,...

Since there is no hope of my securing an eligible parti, due to sad lack of looks, I am running away... So wrote the sixth of the famous Armitage sisters. For how could colorless Frederica...

On the coach to Portsmouth, Miss Pym faces her most difficult matchmaking challenge yet. The lovely Miss Penelope Wilkins, daughter of a rich merchant, would be the perfect match for the handsome...

Life is not easy for the poor relations of England's upper crust. Periodically they are dusted off and conveyed to some relative's stately home, where they make themselves inconspicuous, hoping...

What clever woman would want a man like Lord Harry Desire? Why, he was clearly a lummox--languid, vain, and bland. Not even his beautiful face could redeem him. But he stood to inherit a vast...

His feelings toward her were warm. She turned their conversation over and over in her mind, reading into every casual answer a double meaning, hints of a growing passion that were held in check....

Lovely, wealthy, and well bred, Clarissa Vevian has been unable to find a suitable husband because of her terrible clumsiness. Her petite and fastidious mother, the Lady Clarendon, has tried to...

Miss Hannah Pym, middle-aged spinster and housekeeper, longs for adventure, though she's attained the pinnacle of a servant's career, running the household of Thornton Hall for her melancholy...

No sooner does Miss Pym board her next stagecoach than she finds herself embroiled in the plight of Miss Belinda Earle, a spirited heiress banished to Bath after swearing off the marriage market....

Before M. C. Beaton (a.k.a. Marion Chesney) began writing her internationally successful Hamish Macbeth and Agatha Raisin mystery series, she thrilled readers with humor-laced, highly entertaining...

It seems as if there will be no need to find a husband for Diana, the fifth daughter of Charles Armitage, the hard-drinking huntsman and country vicar. For Diana shares her father's passion for...

Lady Beatrice Marsham is in quite a coil. No sooner is she widowed from a brutish gambling husband, than her heartless family is forcing her into another horrid marriage. Fleeing by stagecoach to...

Daphne, the fourth daughter of the Reverend Charles Armitage, is beautiful--dazzlingly beautiful--but she is utterly wrapped up in her own appearance. It seems fitting when she decides to marry...

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...