![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() One day, she receives the news she’s been dreading: her former fiancé has returned to London. Margaret Huxtable is thirty and verging on spinsterhood, dreading the day when she’ll become dependent on her family and be known as poor Aunt Margaret. Unfortunately his grandfather turns eighty in a fortnight, which leaves him in a bit of a time constraint. He is summoned home by his grandfather, who reminds him of a rash promise he made years ago: he must marry a respectable woman by the time his grandfather turns eighty or else risk disinheritance. They live in seclusion until she finally died of what Sheringford suspects is a loss of will to live. Upon wooing a beautiful young woman – in what seemed to be a love match, no less – he practically left her at the altar only to run away with his future brother-in-law’s wife. Duncan Pennethorne, the Earl of Sheringford, left London five years ago as the subject of a most juicy piece of scandal. ![]()
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