First Season

by Gloria Gay

For her insulting behavior toward the Earl of Ashcom, on whom her family depends for subsistence, beautiful Fantine Delmere earns for herself an unwanted London Season and is forced to leave her beloved Evergreen and venture into the hard glare of the heartless haut ton she abhors. But Fantine's arrival causes other forces to be put into motion . . . How long will it take Ashcom, who is busily nursing his resentment toward her, to realize that someone wants Fantine out of the picture? And how far are these people willing to go to get Fantine removed?

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193 pages, Paperback

First published July 17, 2001

About the author

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My love of reading and writing goes back to my discovery of Nancy Drew, The Dana Girls and Judy Bolton mysteries, which I read by the truckload.

From those early books I went on to read the classics and alternating with classics I would read gothics, and it was "Rebecca", which revived a dream of childhood to become a writer. A letter from Daphne Du Maurier, in reply to my letter to her spurred me into writing a gothic novel. After that I became addicted to Regency romances,