Close to death yet lacking an heir, the Countess of Hampden instructs a private detective to select her successor according to strict criteria. Synnove McKenna, an elegant businesswoman, is subsequently singled out from thousands, to be mistress of Sanderling and seduced into accepting couture clothes and vintage motors that come with the Camelot setting. Struggling to maintain the worthy Victorian values by which the countess lived, Synnove is targeted by opportunists as well as those with more legitimate claims. Blamed, blackmailed and betrayed - she faces both personal ruin and the desecration of everything her benefactress held dear unless she can manage Sanderling successfully.
- ISBN10 0709093071
- ISBN13 9780709093077
- Publish Date 31 October 2011
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 10 November 2014
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher The Crowood Press Ltd
- Imprint Robert Hale Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 224
- Language English