Title: A Model Debutante
Description: Miss Talitha Grey had been left alone and almost penniless by the deaths of her parents. With little money and no prospects, she had to look for one of the few options to earn an honest living which were available to a gently bred young lady. Being a governess or companion did not appeal, but by fortunate chance Talitha (Tallie to her friends) had a genius for designing and making hats, and she was able to obtain a position as a milliner.

This brought in almost, but not quite, enough money to pay the gap between the miniscule private income her parents had left Tallie and the bills she needed to pay, so Tallie found a third source of income by posing incognito as an artist's model for a famous portrait painter. But when a curious set of chances restores Talitha to the status of eligible young lady, this becomes a guilty secret.

A society matron, Lady Parry, takes Talitha under her wing. Lady Parry is kindness himself, but her handsome nephew, Lord Nicholas Arndale, is convinced that Tallie is hiding something. Is her newly recovered place in respectable society about to be destroyed?
Subjects: Fiction, Romance, Historical, Regency, Fiction, romance, general
People: Miss Talitha Grey, Lord Nicholas Arndale, Lady Parry
Time periods: Regency Era, 1816