Editions
- paperback· 293 pp9780451179364
First published 1994
Althea's Grand Tour
"Althea Ingram longs for a gentleman she can look up to, but, for the London dandies, it's her dowry that attracts, not her regally tall and lovely person. She flees to Europe and finds John Maitland, the Earl of Montmorcy. His towering physique and good looks is all she dreams of in a man. Unfortunately, the Earl finds that her delicate, beautiful companion, Cecily de Lisle, fits his idea about the weaker sex, not the fiercely independent Althea. Althea must take care not to fall in love with the Earl, though he presses her over the precipice of dangerous desire ..."--Publisher description.