num_pages: 188
description: It is so unfair! Anne exclaimed indignantly. You dont want a fortune and you dont want to be married while I should enjoy both excessively. If Great Aunt Agatha had wished to promote the marriage of a great niece why didnt she leave her fortune to me? At the age of 24 the bookish and beautiful Miss Elaine Howard of Lynnfield Manor has long accepted her status as a spinster. Her life is focused on taking care of her roguish invalid father and his dilapidated estate and on preparing her younger sister Anne for her first Season. An unexpected inheritance which promises her a large fortune if she marries before her 25th birthday soon sets off a train of dramatic and comic events which include a spate of unwelcome fortune hunters an exchange of identities an abduction and a mystery around a missing family heirloom. An Unmarried Lady is a regency romance written in the style of Georgette Heyer. Its lively characters become embroiled in a plot that makes use of the thick black fog that descended upon London and the surrounding countryside in December of 1813 and also touches on events in the lives of Henry VIII Catherine Howard and Mary Wollstonecraft. 
language: English
title: An Unmarried Lady
publisher: Anna Willman