A Harmless Ruse

Life at Westerham Park was a lark for Cassandra and her cousin Claire until Wilfred Westerham returned from the wars determined to take the young ladies firmly in hand. But the birds would not be caged. In a trice they flew off to London with Claire posing as the young Widow Bennet, the beautiful Cassandra's proper chaperone.

The wicked London season was at its giddy height. The high-spirited Cassandra was an heiress in her own right. Together she and the lovely Claire would create a sensation and set the mischievous, top-lofty Anthony, Earl of Alquist, and his dashing brother, Robert a merry, breathless chase...