Was ever a bride so sadly used—the groom gets killed on his wedding night!So much for Miss Sabina Jenkins's glorious rise from lady's companion to wife of a rakehell English peer. And his vast fortune is cold comfort indeed!For with all her new wealth and good looks, Sabina is still loath to enter the haute ton...that is, until the handsome Earl of Ashendon persuades her that her presence there would not be amiss.At first Sabina thinks the Earl is shamming her. But as society—and the Earl--opens its arms to her, she begins to fret. Having made one disastrous mistake in love, can she trust herself not to make another?
To be taken with giant grains of salt: foolish mother of duke makes up story that woman found unconscious in the road is her son's wife so he can get money from elderly relative who wants to see him married, so even though son is against it, woman foolishly says it to pretty much everyone she meets, from the servants to the family, and so...if the woman weren't a fool and a duchess, there would be no plot.
the premises held promise, but the back cover description was a lot better than the book itself. Lucinda was almost an afterthought. The focus was much more on Dareth Farringdon's mother (good-hearted, but useless and silly, though still beautiful) and her antics. cute twist at the end concerning the inheritance.