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A Brilliant Match
Jennie Goutet, author
Lady Dorothea Rowlandson does not desire a love match. Only an advantageous match - a brilliant match - will do. Miles Shaw holds an encumbered estate, and it is only logical, therefore, that he commence the London Season on the hunt for a well-dowered wife. When chance forced Miles and Dorothea to partner one another for the first dance of the first crush of the season, Fortuna could only have been in a funning mood. To have fostered so unsuitable a connection was nothing short of absurd. For what could a peer of the realm’s daughter and a gentleman of no consequence, with his pockets to let, possibly have in common?