Fortune Wheel

the long version

REGENCY LONDON IS QUITE A WHIRL ON THE FORTUNE WHEEL. Raven-haired Emily's first London season was hardly waht she expected. her aunt Lady Fairfield, who can't see the couds for the silver linings, was thoroughly determined to squander her fortune. Jeremy Fairfield was a bit of a rake, Lord Nicholson was given to strange emotional outbursts, the butler and maid were stealing everyone blind, and whoever Lady Randolph was, she certainly was not Lady Randolph. And then, at her very first ball, a foppish suitor chases Emily right into the arms of the dashing Lord Carrigan. Emily is put off by Lord Carrigan's cynical worldliness, yet she can't explain her strange feelings whenever he walks into a room. But when Lord Carrigan's brother and Emily's cousin are mysteriously kidnapped, they are suddenly plunged into a breathless adventure of exciting danger and surprising romance.