num_pages: 372
description: He thought her money was the end of his problems but it was just the beginning... Young Lord Nevinstoke enjoys every moment of his deep-gaming hard-drinking womanizing life. Then his father is killed in a drunken duel and Nev inherits a mountain of debts and responsibilities. He vows to leave his wild friends and his mistress behind start acting respectableand marry a rich girl. Penelope Brown a manufacturing heiress seems the perfect choice. Shes pretty ladylike good at accounting and looking for a marriage based on companionship and mutual esteem not love. In fact the only rash thing shes ever done in her life is accept Nevs proposal. When the newlyweds arrive at Nevs family estate they discover that all the respectability and reason in the world won't be enough to handle a hostile next-door neighbor mutinous tenants and Nevs family's propensity for scandal. In way over their heads Nev and Penelope have no one to turn to but each otherbut to their surprise that just might be enough.
language: English
title: In for a Penny
publisher: Rose Lerner