title: At Daggers Drawn
author: Menzel, Lois
description: POOR BUT PROUD, SHE WOULD TAKE ORDERS FROM NO MAN  --  NOT EVEN A TITLED ONE!
  
  The situation could not have been more bleak for Caroline Hargave and her family. Papa's death had left them nearly penniless. The crops were failing. The estate was in sad neglect. And, to top it off, their new trustee, Lord Brooke, made his imperious entrance, determined to squeeze blood from a stone to set everything to rights.
  
  He issued orders and expected them all to jump! Despite his handsome features, she would not let such autocratic cockiness and overbearing arrogance go unchallenged. Brooke, however, was not at all accustomed to a woman as outspoken as Miss Hargrave. She was as proud as a lioness and equally as fierce--qualities he found more and more unsettling...