Lady Fearful

Name: Lady Fearful
Author: Kate Archer

76 pages

She is afraid of her own shadow. He likes to sail his sloop at night and harass the French. No two temperaments could be further apart.

Lady Valor Nicolet is the last daughter the Duke of Pelham will launch out of his house. While some daughters might leap at the chance to take their place in Town, this particular daughter has been holding on tight to her childhood home. She even went as far as pretending to be consumptive, though it proved to be so boring she had to stage a miraculous recovery.
Now she is on her way, and brings her own ideas to locating a husband. She is determined to find a quiet, unambitious baron who prefers the countryside and collects…well, she does not really know what he might collect. It just seems to her that a gentleman who collects things cannot be dangerous.
Weston Nicolet, cousin to Lady Valor and heir presumptive to the duke, has been raised by Lord Ledderbey on the Cornwall coast since his parents died. Lately, he and his valet have been taking his sloop, The Athena, out at night to harass French frigates. After word gets back to him that the French might make a landing to put an end to his adventures, he realizes he must get Lord Ledderbey away from the danger.
He need not look too hard for a house, as the Duke of Pelham, who has never once bothered to write to him, has gone so far as to rent him a house on Grosvenor Square. Weston does not like it, but to London they will go.

A lady wishing to remove all danger from her life and a gentleman who regularly sails out to find it could not be less suited. But on the other hand, perhaps both of them have some things to learn about life.

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