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- by Louise Bergin
- ISBN: 0-451-21472-2, Signet Regency, April 2005
After a failed London season, Miss Lydia Grenville returns to the country with a little hope of finding a love match. She seeks solace in her sketching, often sneaking out of her house to draw in the woods surrounding nearby Winterbourne Castle.
But a man soon disrupts her peace — a rumpled scholar who she assumes is the secretary to the new Duke of Winterbourne. His playful intelligence captivates Lydia's heart. Destined to marry a noble, Lydia knows her attraction to the secretary is quite hopeless — and meeting him unaccompanied in the woods quite scandalous. But nothing can prepare her for the deception that soon comes to light — and changes everything...