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Queen’s Ford, seat of the Forde family for centuries, is crumbling into ruin. Devastated by their reduced circumstances, handsome and bored Jeremy Forcombe is determined to find a solution. He persuades his sister, Mariota, to go along with his outlandish plan to masquerade as highwaymen. Things go awry when they meet their match in their victim and there is an accident with a gun. Now the handsome Earl of Buckenham is injured, and the siblings are praying for his recovery – to save them from the gallows, and perhaps so much more.

Hiding in the seedy underbelly of Paris, Vernita is keeping her sick mother alive by selling exquisitely embroidered lingerie to a shop that supplies the Princess Pauline Borghese. When Vernita approaches the Princess directly with a new negligee, she is enchanted and employs Vernita as a personal servant. As an English noblewoman in the enemy French court, Vernita has to tread carefully. However, both the Princess’ handsome lover Count Axel de Storvik and the all-powerful Emperor Napoleon are making matters more complicated...

Penelope e Alisa Wynton vivono in un cottage di campagna insieme al padre, autore di libri che nessuno sembra intenzionato a comprare. Afflitte dalla mancanza di soldi e dalle fantasie di un radioso ingresso nell’alta società londinese, le due bellissime sorelle hanno un piano: ricorrendo alle antiche ricette della madre, confezioneranno delle creme per il viso, che poi Alisa venderà nella capitale, sperando di racimolare abbastanza denaro da permettersi un paio di abiti con cui partecipare a qualche evento mondano.