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Back Cover: Kate Malvern, rescued from penury by her aunt Minerva, hardly knows what to expect at Staplewood - the grand household is so vastly different from a life spent following the drum in the Peninsular!

But surely, other households are more homelike? Kate's uncle lives in one wing, handsome, moody cousin Torquil in another; though guests are few, even family dinners are formal. And, when Kate begins to suspect the shocking reason for Minerva's generosity, she has no-one to confide in but cousin Philip - who appears to have taken her in instant dislike....

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