Lady Fearful

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>She is afraid of her own shadow. He likes to sail his sloop at night and harass the French. No two temperaments could be further apart.</em></strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Lady Valor Nicolet is the last daughter the Duke of Pelham will launch out of his house. While some daughters might leap at the chance to take their place in Town this particular daughter has been holding on tight to her childhood home. She even went as far as pretending to be consumptive though it proved to be so boring she had to stage a miraculous recovery.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Now she is on her way and brings her own ideas to locating a husband. She is determined to find a quiet unambitious baron who prefers the countryside and collects...well she does not really know what he might collect. It just seems to her that a gentleman who collects things cannot be dangerous.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Weston Nicolet cousin to Lady Valor and heir presumptive to the duke has been raised by Lord Ledderbey on the Cornwall coast since his parents died. Lately he and his valet have been taking his sloop </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The Athena</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> out at night to harass French frigates. After word gets back to him that the French might make a landing to put an end to his adventures he realizes he must get Lord Ledderbey away from the danger.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>He need not look too hard for a house as the Duke of Pelham who has never once bothered to write to him has gone so far as to rent him a house on Grosvenor Square. Weston does not like it but to London they will go.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A lady wishing to remove all danger from her life and a gentleman who regularly sails out to find it could not be less suited. But on the other hand perhaps both of them have some things to learn about life.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Tropes You'll Love:</strong></p><ul><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Opposites Attract</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Reluctant Debutante</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Protective Hero</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Family Connection</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Fish Out of Water</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Sweet Romance / Closed Door</span></li></ul><p></p>