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The Riddle Of The Shipwrecked Spinster
Patricia Veryan
St. Martin's Press
April 2001
On Sale: April 6, 2001
Featuring: Gervaise Valerian; Cordelia Stansbury
352 pages
ISBN: 0312269420
EAN: 9780312269425
Hardcover
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Romance Historical
Mrs. Regina Stansbury, a woman of high fashion and dwindling
fortunes, has just trapped London's most courted bachelor
into agreeing to marry her daughter Cordelia. Though young
Miss Cordelia Stansbury has admired the handsome and dashing
Gervaise Valerian for years, she is mortified by the
circumstances of their engagement. Duty bound to obtain her
father's consent for this match, Miss Stansbury becomes lost
at sea while traveling to meet him in Egypt. But Valerian's
hopes for a long and carefree bachelorhood are dashed once
again when Miss Stansbury reappears after a year spent
shipwrecked on a desert island. Ignoring the Code of Honour, Valerian rescinds his offer of
matrimony. To restore the family name, Piers Cranford, a
distant cousin of Valerian's, is bullied into proposing to
the disgraced young lady. His offer is rudely rejected, but
under pressure from his great-uncle General Lord Nugent
Cranford, Piers is forced to pursue Miss Stansbury or risk
losing his family manor. Piers is reluctant to marry a
haughty girl he barely knows, especially now that he has
just met a delightfully intriguing young lady named Mary
Westerman... His worries are compounded when his estate is plagued with a
series of disasters. Are these troubles linked to old foes
from the Jacobite Rebellion, or could they be the work of a
mysterious bidder, intent on bringing down the value of Muse
Manor and buying Piers Cranford's beloved family estate?
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