The Reluctant Heiress

When Lady Sarah Melford inherited her grandmother's enormous wealth, she became the object of many suitors. Her brother, the Marquess of Cranleigh, had a stunning wife, Rosalind, who had a court of her own, but even her cicisbeo, the Chevalier d'Evron, and her brother, charming, impecunious Richard, claimed to seek Sarah's hand. It was the irresistible rake Alistair Farrington, Earl of Burnleigh, however, who most disturbed her . . . Regency Romance by Evelyn Richardson; originally published by Signet