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« Parents d'une jeune fille turbulente, insolente et indisciplinée ? Engagez deux dames bien nées pour lui enseigner les bonnes manières et raffiner le matériau le plus brut. Nous tirons le meilleur du pire. » Être pauvre n'empêche pas d'avoir de riches idées ! Privées d'un héritage qui leur aurait assuré une belle rente, Amy et Effie Tribble, deux charmantes aristocrates ruinées, proposent leurs services en tant que chaperons professionnels. L'annonce passée dans le Morning Post attirera une clientèle fortunée, elles en sont sûres.

Entre orgueils et préjugés, bienvenue dans La Saison des débutantes ! " Parents d'une jeune fille turbulente, insolente et indisciplinée ? Engagez deux dames bien nées pour lui enseigner les bonnes manières et raffiner le matériau le plus brut. Nous tirons le meilleur du pire ! " Être pauvre n'empêche pas d'avoir de riches idées ! Privées d'un héritage qui leur aurait assuré une belle rente, Amy et Effy Tribble, deux charmantes soeurs ruinées, proposent leurs services en tant que chaperons professionnels. L'annonce passée dans le Morning Post saura attirer une clientèle fortunée.

Être pauvre n'empêche pas d'avoir de riches idées ! Privées d'un héritage qui leur aurait assuré une belle rente, Amy et Effie Tribble, deux charmantes soeurs ruinées, proposent leurs services en tant que chaperons professionnels. L'annonce passée dans le Morning Post saura attirer une clientèle fortunée. À première vue, Clarissa est une jeune fille parfaite: ravissante, riche et aristocrate. Mais elle est d'une telle maladresse malgré son charme qu'elle fait fuir les hommes.

« Parents d'une jeune fille turbulente, insolente et indisciplinée ? Engagez deux dames bien nées pour lui enseigner les bonnes manières et raffiner le matériau le plus brut. Nous tirons le meilleur du pire. » Être pauvre n'empêche pas d'avoir de riches idées ! Privées d'un héritage qui leur aurait assuré une belle rente, Amy et Effie Tribble, deux charmantes aristocrates ruinées, proposent leurs services en tant que chaperons professionnels. L'annonce passée dans le Morning Post attirera une clientèle fortunée, elles en sont sûres. À dix-neuf ans, Fiona, belle et riche héritière ecossaise, n'a nulle perspective de mariage.

Être pauvre n'empêche pas d'avoir de riches idées ! Privées d'un héritage qui leur aurait assuré une belle rente, Amy et Effie Tribble, deux charmantes soeurs ruinées, proposent leurs services en tant que chaperons professionnels. L'annonce passée dans le Morning Post saura attirer une clientèle fortunée. D'une beauté à couper le souffle, Delilah a reçu quantité de propositions de mariage. Mais, rejetée par Sir Charles Digby, le seul homme qu'elle ait jamais aimé, elle est devenue une implacable briseuse de coeurs qui se joue de ses soupirants.

Entre orgueils et préjugés, bienvenue dans La Saison des débutantes ! " Parents d'une jeune fille turbulente, insolente et indisciplinée ? Engagez deux dames bien nées pour lui enseigner les bonnes manières et raffiner le matériau le plus brut. Nous tirons le meilleur du pire ! " Être pauvre n'empêche pas d'avoir de riches idées ! Privées d'un héritage qui leur aurait assuré une belle rente, Amy et Effy Tribble, deux charmantes soeurs ruinées, proposent leurs services en tant que chaperons professionnels. L'annonce passée dans le Morning Post saura attirer une clientèle fortunée.

Roderick Sinclair confirms he wishes to rent nuber 67 Clarges Street for the current season. The staff are overjoyed - until they find that Mr. Sinclair is a terrible miser who is planning no parties. Furthermore, his ward, Fiona, though a dazzling Highland beauty, does not seem to possess one bright idea in her head. But it is Rainbird, No.67's clever and elegant butler, who sees through her façade and resolves to help his mysterious mistress in whatever way he can...

Poor Minerva. Prudish, self-righteous, and incredibly beautiful, she is to be sent to London to capture a wealthy husband. But Minerva doesn't know the first thing about flirting. The London dandies find her moralizing appalling and concoct a plan to assault her virtue - an assault that will scandalize all London society. Meanwhile, Lord Sylvester Comfrey, whom she met earlier through her father, has been keeping a careful eye on the girl. A fact she resents. She dislikes Lord Sylvester. There is something about him that disturbs her.

Encouraged by an unruly twin brother, tomboyish Lady Deborah Western seems set on dressing and behaving in a most unladylike manner, much to the dismay of her handsome neighbour, the Earl of Ashton.Fortunately for the Earl, Miss Pym is on hand to make sure the gorgeous girl is introduced to some more feminine pursuits...M. C. Beaton is the author of the bestselling Agatha Raisin series. She has also written several Regency romance series. She lives between Paris and the Cotswolds.

What clever woman would want a man like Lord Harry Desire? Why, he was clearly a lummox - languid, vain, and bland. Not even his beautiful face could redeem him. But he stood to inherit a vast fortune, and that was good enough for Deirdre's father, a spendthrift vicar who arranged the match to rescue himself from imminent financial collapse. Leave it to Deirdre to contrive an escape, a quick elopement with her one true love, the dashing Guy Wentwater. But Wentwater's love proved none too true, and Deirdre found herself in a humiliating pickle.

The final book in M.C. Beaton's charming A House for the Season series. Love comes home to A House for the Season! When the Duke of Pelham returns to his town house at 67 Clarges Street he is grimly determined to find himself a suitable wife, and love will have nothing to do with his selection...

The fourth book in M.C. Beaton's charming A House for the Season series. He's just not the marrying kind... Lord Guy Carlton, late of His Majesty's Regiment and weary from the war in France, has only wine, women and song in mind when he rents No. 67 Clarges Street for the season. He certainly...

Poor Ginny Bloggs! She had inherited a fortune, a magnificent country estate, and her benefactor's disgruntled relatives - a quartet of querulous schemers - who were horrified to find themselves suddenly at the mercy of a low, common girl; a total stranger - the coal merchant's daughter! The handsome Lord Gerald de Fremney himself had pledged to keep the more unruly relatives in line. He thought he understood thoroughly modern women. Her reluctant guardians thought they understood society. Such was Ginny Bloggs; as delicate as a china doll, as bold as brass. She understood them all, and now she was going to teach them all what it meant to be a lady!

The Beast; that was what they called her. With her plump body and rough tomboy ways, she felt more like a clown. It was hopeless. Poor penniless Tilly could only sit among the chaperons as a paid companion to the spiteful Lady Aileen. The best she could do was sit; sit and dream. But suddenly Phillip, Marquess of Heppleford, the most eligible bachelor of all - decided he wanted her for himself, to be his wife, and they were married. His intent was to keep his freedom, fulfill the conditions of his father's will, and shock his aunts.

Miss Annabelle Armitage was pea-green with envy. What a cruel world it was when her spinster of an older sister could enchant the dashing Lord Sylvester Comfrey! Annabelle's own passionate nature was surely better suited for such a one as Sylvester. Alas for Annabelle, Comfrey seemed to care for her not a jot. Determined to get a bit of her own back, even if it meant marrying another, Annabelle found Peter, Marquess of Brabington, a most attentive admirer - who ends up having to fight for her love.

Poor little Susie. A beautiful dreamer, she imagined herself happy in a rose-covered cottage, only to find herself mistress of a great damp castle and wife to the elderly Earl of Blackhall. Luck, not the lecherous earl, contrived to spare her, and by her wedding night she was transformed to a wealthy young widow. But her trials had just begun.

Daisy Jenkins never expected to be anything more than a trespasser on the idyllic lawns of Marsden Castle. Then suddenly she was admitted into the seemingly magic circle of the Earl and Countess of Nottenstone, where she awaited the arrival of the notorious Lord Chatterton; her father - a stranger whose very name was foreign to her. She was suddenly Daisy Chatterton, surrounded by aristocratic sharks who seemed to both court as well as mock her. And why did the elegant Duke of Oxenden offer his protection to this newcomer who made him laugh at the very word love?

Maggie Macleod was weary of life with a soul sickness that ate into every fiber of her being. In a mad way, it did not seem strange to her that she should be on the way to High Court to stand trial for the murder of her husband. Her marriage seemed to have been one long dreary desert lit by flares of cruelty.

Polly was a bewitching young girl, that pretty Polly Marsh, and she knew it. She also knew that beauty could be her passport into the castles where she had always known she belonged. So she set her sights for a duke and joined the firm of Westerman's as a stenographer. Surely one of that noble family would notice her and then all of her dreams would come true!

The first book in M.C. Beaton's charming Poor Relation series. What do you do if you are of noble stock, but impoverished, and living in London with a certain style to maintain? One has to work... but One's relatives will be appalled when One turns One's hand to trade - and opens a hotel, The...