The Bumblebroth Author:Patricia Wynn NO FEMALE STOOD A CHANCE AGAINST THE CHARMS OF LORD WESTBURY. — Mathilda, Duchess of Upavon, had reason to be alarmed. Her fifteen-year-old daughter was the object of attention from the notoriously handsome embodiment of every female's fantasy: Lord Westbury. Since scandal had shadowed Mattie's own life when she wed at sixteen, she vowed her daug... more »hter would not make the same mistake.
In truth, Lord Westbury's cursory call upon the schoolroom girl was all part of a lavish, under-handed plot to reclaim some land. But after one look at the lovely mother, his lordship began some scheming of his own....
When William, Viscount Westbury, pays a short visit to his estate, his mother attempts to trap him into a marriage with the girl next door. Lady Pamela has inherited Westbury Manor from her father, the late Duke of Upavon, and Lady Westbury dreams of reclaiming the enchanting property for her dower house.
But Pamela is only fifteen and William has no taste for immature girls. His eye lights on her reclusive mother, Mattie, instead.
It will take a devoted suitor to figure out why such a divine creature as the widowed Duchess of Upavon has a fear of society, and a determined man to convince Mattie to risk causing a scandal by marrying a much younger man.« less