title: Miss Chambers Takes Charge
author: Reed, Joy
description: AN INDEPENDENT MISS
  Pretty of face but plain of lineage, Miss Claudia Chambers is compelled to take a position as companion to Lady Rexford, a widow who is trying to hold on to her dowager's inheritance against the wishes of her husband's relatives, who believe her to be a fortune hunter. Claudia must accompany her to Yorkshire, where she comes into contact with their most prodigious opponent Lord Rexford, Lady Rexford's dark, ruggedly handsome nephew and heir to the estate.
  
  A NOBLE LORD
  Though secretly enamored of Claudia's spirit, Lord Rexford makes her blood boil with his disrespect of her elderly companion. Tossing her lovely head, Claudia vows to ignore the intriguing, but infuriating, lord even if it may be at her peril. For soon she'll have dire need of Rexford--and he of her--in a circumstance that could kindle love between the most contentious of hearts and the most mismatched of fortunes.
  
  Hero: John Rexford
  Heroine: Miss Claudia Chambers