The Reluctant Abigail

the long version

AND THEN LOVE BECAME HER MASTER.... Lady Gabriela Pennington came disguised as a servant to the country manor of her distant cousin Alina as a matter of family duty. She had to find out the truth about rumors that Alina was totally besotted with the handsome, unscrupulous, fortune-hunting Sir Willard Craig. Soon Gabriela was installed as abigail to the hapless heiress, determined to save Alina from the marriage trap triggered to snap shut. But if Gabriela was there to look after Alina, there was no one to protect Gabriela when Sir Willard's notorious cousin, the arrogant , irresistibly dashing Marquis of Wrotham, arrived. Acting as a servant of good sense was one thing. But it was so much harder to stop from becoming the slave of this lord whom it was an obvious folly to love...