HERE IS THE sprawling, sensuous
tale of a spirited young country
lass who defies convention and
confounds London society in determined
pursuit of the one man who has won her
heart.
Lucy Emmett is anything but a lady of
the Quality. Born of an industrious
tenant farmer and a wayfaring gypsy and
brought up as free as the lusty manner in
which she was born. Lucy is a beautiful
firebrand eagerly pursued by all the men
in the county. To protect his daughter s
imperiled virtue. Lucy s father arranges a
hasty marriage to the local blacksmith.
but the resourceful Lucy catches the eye
of the foppish Peter Royalston and is
whisked away to become schooled in the
courtly arts and used as a pawn in the
fop s own social climbing schemes.
But when Lucy is swept off her feet by
the handsome and illustrious Heir to the
Earldom of Landsdun. she willingly
surrenders to the man she knows is her
match in spirit and her maker in society
Through her beloved Charles, Lucy will
at last have the opportunity to realize
herself as the elegant, gracious, and
intelligent woman of stature she is. Yet
the stumbling blocks are many. With
both her own humble birth and the Heir s
engagement to another threatening her
newly envisioned happiness, Lucy de-
vises a bold and reckless scheme to win
her loved one as her own and to achieve
recognition for the lady of quality she has
always been.
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