Sometimes fairy tales can come true-even for plain, shy
spinsters like Missy Wright. Neither as pretty as cousin
Alicia nor as domineering as mother Drusilla, she seems
doomed to a quiet life of near poverty at Missalonghi, her
family's pitifully small homestead in Australia's Blue
Mountains. But It's a brand new century-the twentieth-a time
for new thoughts and bold new actions. And Missy Wright is
about to set every self-righteous tongue in the town of
Byron wagging. Because she has just set her sights on a
mysterious, mistrusted and unsuspecting stranger ... who
just might be Prince-Charming in disguise.