title: Miss Danforth's Big Adventure
author: Halpin, Janet
description: Miss Miriam Danforth yearns for adventure, excitement and true love, but as the eldest of four girls, she knows duty must trump her heart's desire. She's reluctantly agreed to a marriage of convenience to a wealthy Earl's son, and is to meet the "dull toad" that very evening. With her afternoon free, Miriam heads to her favorite book shop determined to escape her cares-if only for a little while-in a rousing adventure novel. But the adventure comes in human form when she falls, quite literally, upon a dashing young man who seems to offer her everything she could hope for. Except security. What begins as a simple flirtation becomes so much more, and Miriam must decide if she will risk her future for an adventure that could lead to happiness and true love.