


From back cover: Ever since his young wife's death, Lord Randolph Stanton had gone from gaming table to music hall, running up gambling debts and living down a dissolute reputation.
One would thinkthat he, of all people, would refrain from speaking ill of the sophisticated beauty, Lady Bess, his neighbor since childhood and a society gadabout in her own right. Indeed, putting Lord Randolph and Lady Bess in the same ballroom was like tossing an English setter into a basket withan adorned angora cat!
Until Lord Randolph's daughter, Penny, came home from boarding school--much against her father's will - and taught them both a much needed lesson in love!
One would thinkthat he, of all people, would refrain from speaking ill of the sophisticated beauty, Lady Bess, his neighbor since childhood and a society gadabout in her own right. Indeed, putting Lord Randolph and Lady Bess in the same ballroom was like tossing an English setter into a basket withan adorned angora cat!
Until Lord Randolph's daughter, Penny, came home from boarding school--much against her father's will - and taught them both a much needed lesson in love!