Scandalous [WorldCat Entities]

"Gabby determines to save the family fortune by pretending that her brother is still alive long enough to get her younger sister married but her plan backfires when a stranger shows up claiming to be her dead brother."
"England, 1810: When Lady Gabriella Banning receives word that her half-brother, the Earl of Wickham, had died on his tea plantation in Ceylon, she faces the reality that she and her younger sisters are suddenly penniless."@en
""England, 1810: When Lady Gabriella Banning learns that her half-brother, the Earl of Wickham, has died on his tea plantation in Ceylon, she faces the reality that she and her younger sisters, Claire and Elizabeth, are penniless. The family's riches will pass to a distant male cousin ... Pretending that Marcus is still alive, Gabby arranges Claire's London season. She'll keep up the pretense just long enough for Claire to marry a fabulously wealthy nobleman."--Page 4 of cover."@en
""Faced with poverty after the death of her half-brother, the Earl of Wickham, on his Ceylon tea plantation, Lady Gabriella Banning plans to secure the future of her two younger sisters--Claire and Elizabeth--by marrying off Claire to a wealthy aristocrat, but her scheme is threatened by a charming stranger who claims to be the Earl of Wickham."--NovelList."@en
"Sisters lose their brother when he is brutally murdered and devise a deceptive plan to keep him officially 'alive' to keep themselves from poverty and disgrace."@en

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