A Jane Austen entertainment
2 total works
When an accident brings Priscilla and her brother Ralph to Lady Catherine's residence, a chain of events is set in train which includes a brush with death with the lower orders, and the discovery of a skeleton in the cupboard of her late husband.
Hatti Ward is the most accomplished and kind of the Ward sisters, but is treated with contempt by all except her mother. Packed off to her uncle's estate in Portsmouth, she has to endure her frightful cousins and haughty Lady Ursula. Soon she and Lady Ursula are in competition for a certain lord.