The Fugitive Heiress

the long version

Catheryn Westering should have been happy to marry eminently respectable, utterly devoted Mr. Edmund Caston--and to enjoy a life of totally boring wedded bliss in the English countryside. Instead Catheryn did what only a headstrong and thorougly determined young lady would dream of doing. She descended without warning on the London mansion of her very distant cousin, the Earl of Dambroke--and demanded that he become her guide through the glittering labyrinth of polilshed manners and perplexing morals of the highest society. All too soon, Catheryn discovered how dangerous it was to put herself in the hands of a man who was as arrogant as he was attractive--and how foolhardy it was to accept the challenge of playing for high stakes in the sophisticated game of love before she had even learned the rules...