Dragon Dowager: 1 (Dauntless Deveraux)

Finally a fearsome dowager gets her own love story. She is known as the Dragon Dowager. Edie Deveraux uses her social power to protect her family. She is ruthless if anyone threatens them. When her son Danny falls in love she scrutinises his new paramour Berta a woman born as a man. She must decide whether to accept the young lovers or remove Berta from her sons life. As she investigates Bertas family connections Edie meets Bertas uncle the delectable scholar Stephen Prior. With his enticing body and gentle wit he rocks her assumptions that a widow nearing fifty is too old for love. Can he trust the indomitable dowager?