Set in Sussex in 1791, a historical novel about a young woman who attends her first ever ball, and dreams of a proposal from a childhood friend. But her hopes are dashed when she is forced to marry an elderly fop - until her life is later saved by the childhood friend, and their lives are changed forever. From the author of WHISPERING.
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Forced into marriage with the elderly Lord Meynal, Amanda Cartaret's life on his remote Suffolk estate proves even worse than she had dreamed. In Naples, she is taken under the wing of the scandalous Ambassador's wife Emma Hamilton. Then when Vesuvius erupts, she is rescued by a childhood friend.
Country-bred Amanda Cartaret goes to her fir st ball with dreams of a proposal from her childhood friend John Purvis. Instead she is forced, by her mother, to marry the elderly Lord Meynal and feels that she is set for a life of misery, but this is not so. '
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