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"A classic Regency"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted January 1, 2005

Lady Horatia Verney is having cardiac arrest because her unmarried daughter Georgianna is a bluestocking. Besides fretting that her oldest daughter is heading towards the shelf if she is not already there, Horatia needs Georgianna married to a wealthy man because the family lacks the funding to keep up Read more...

"Reissue of 1988 Regency romance is a classic."
Reviewed by Lenore Howard
Posted January 10, 2005

Despite having attracted the attention of the wealthy, handsome Lord Maitland, Georgianne Verney has no desire for love and marriage. She wants to be useful in the world, so she runs away and becomes Grace Vail, a teacher at a charity school. From the start, she's at odds with the Read more...

Summary

Georgiana Verney was a young woman with ideals, and one of them was that she would never marry for money. It was a principle her mother could not accept, for money was what the family needed most—and they could get some if Georgy would encourage the attentions of the attractive, wealthy Lord Maitland. But rebellious Georgy would not deny her principles. She disappeared from home just when his lordship seemed on the verge of an offer. She had no idea that her mother would attempt to keep Maitland interested by finding a replacement for her. Nor could she anticipate what her new life as a teacher in a charity school would mean to her. She only knew that, no matter what strange paths this new life would take, the secret hold that Maitland held on her heart would never ease.