"Althea Ingram longed for a gentleman she could look up to, but she found none among the London dandies who found her dowry more to their taste than her regally tall and lovely person."
"Althea Ingram longs for a gentleman she can look up to, but, for the London dandies, it's her dowry that attracts, not her regally tall and lovely person. She flees to Europe and finds John Maitland, the Earl of Montmorcy. His towering physique and good looks is all she dreams of in a man. Unfortunately, the Earl finds that her delicate, beautiful companion, Cecily de Lisle, fits his idea about the weaker sex, not the fiercely independent Althea. Althea must take care not to fall in love with the Earl, though he presses her over the precipice of dangerous desire ..."
"Althea Ingram longed for a gentleman to look up to--but found none among the London dandies to her liking. It was only when Althea fled to Western Europe that she found what she was so sorely missing in her life: John Maitland, the Earl of Montmorcy."
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