Title: The Maiden of Mayfair (Tales of London #1)
First published: 2000
Description: *If the Truth is Revealed, Will She Lose All She's Grown to Love?*

An orphanage in the slums of London is the only home Sarah Matthews has ever known. When she is suddenly whisked away to a wealthy widow's home in the prestigious Mayfair district, Sarah can't fathom what has happened. Why would this elderly woman, a stranger, want her company? But Dorothea Blake has reasons she isn't revealing.

As Sarah blossoms into a young woman, the secret Mrs. Blake harbors threatens to make them both outcasts among London's elite. When a visitor unknowingly stumbles upon the truth, he puts Sarah at risk of losing everything she holds dear, including the attentions of a new curate. Will the mystery of her birth remain buried forever?
Subjects: Older women, Teenage girls, Orphans, Fiction, Elderly women, Bildungsromans, Teenagers, Christian fiction, Historical fiction, London (england), fiction, Fiction, historical, general
Places: London (England)
LC classification: PS3552.L3429 M35 2000