title: Talk of the Town
author: Saunders, Irene
description: War of Whispers
  
  Beautiful Miss Catherine Hayward was in growing danger from the sharp tongues and inventive imaginations of London society. Her widower father was far off in a foreign war. Her younger brother was perilously close to ruining his future. And Catherine herself found that her independent ways and stubborn pride made her the target of the cruelest gossip and most shocking rumors.
  
  Somehow Catherine had to defend herself -- and not only from the whispers around her. For Catherine was under siege by the handsome and domineering Duke of Coverdale ... whose marriage suit was surely spurred by duty, not desire ... and whom Catherine vowed to resist no matter what society said or her own heart pleaded....
  
  Hero: Edwin Coverdale
  Heroine: Miss Catherine Hayward