Compelled by his ageing Aunt Augusta to give up his dissolute ways and take a wife - or risk losing his inheritance - Lord Nicholas Strickland is in a quandary. He has no wish to marry at present - particularly not to marry his aunt's favoured candidate, Miss Charlotte Craven. But he cannot endure the prospect of giving up his beloved family home, Maplethorpe. Charlotte, however, is no more enamoured of the dashing Lord Nicholas than he is of her. Intelligent, high-spirited and uncommonly tall, she is a young woman of determined character. With the help of her friend Amelia Beauclerc - herself rather taken by the gentlemanly charms of Lord Nicholas' friend Captain Young - she sets out to confound Aunt Augusta's well-laid plans...
- ISBN10 0727874969
- ISBN13 9780727874962
- Publish Date 24 February 2006 (first published 25 March 2005)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 7 November 2010
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Severn House Publishers Ltd
- Imprint Severn House Large Print Books
- Edition Large type / large print edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 288
- Language English