A Fine Madness

If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own villageshe must seek them abroad. Jane Austen Miss Otis regrets...The entirely of Miss Elspeth Otis's inheritance from her wastrel father is a battered old trunk with some scrawled-upon foolscap sheets. Nothing that could free her from a stifling life with her fusty maiden aunties in a musty old cottage in a misty corner of Scotland. Nothing that will give her the life she's always dreamed of-a life full of kindness and kisses and love. Or will it?Nothing...Mr. Hamish Cathcart wants more than anything to avoid the hasty marriage to a brewer's daughter his father the earl has arranged to revive his fortunes. Hamish's only hope is his failing publishing company whose only asset is a scandalously banned book by an infamous but unfortunately deceased author. But when a new novel written by the same man lands on Hamish's doorstep he'll go to any length to secure it-any length but love.