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- paperback· 221 pp9780712629294
First published 1987
Lady Aurelia's Bequest
AN OLD WORLD TO CONQUER--AND A COLD HEART TO MELT When a fabulous legacy brought Cordelia Darcy from her home in America to a splendid townhouse in Regency London, the high-spirited young heiress took aristocratic society by storm. One man, however, was not moved by her beauty, wit and charm. Instead he considered her a rude, crude, unprincipled schemer who had gained her fortune by despicable trickery and who had become the toast of society by scandalous effrontery. That man was the handsome, blue-blooded, utterly icy Earl of Wyndham--the most infuriating man Cordelia had ever met...and the most irresistible....