Title: Powder and Patch
Subtitle: The Transformation of Philip Jettan
Description: In an 18th-Century England of wit, womanising and powdered wigs, provincial Philip Jettan runs the risk of irreproachability. When her childhood friend, the golden-haired Cleone Charteris returns from finishing school, her exquisite charms have made her the belle of the English countryside. Philip is determined to attract the attentions and launches an amorous campaign to win her hand in marriage.. But Cleone yearns for a husband who is refined, aristocratic and who is as skilled with his wit as he is with his dueling pistols.... Everything Philip Jettan is not. As much as she is attracted to the handsome squire, Cleone finds herself dismissing Philip and his rough mannerisms.

With his father's encouragement, Philip departs for the courts of Paris, determined to acquire the social graces and the airs of the genteel — and convince Cleone that he is the man most suited for her hand, but with unforeseen consequences for them both ... He comes back  as a fashionably attired man of the world, with powder, patches, and all the manners of a seasoned rake. Does Cleone now have exactly the kind of man she's always wanted, or was her insistence on Philip's remarkable transformation a terrible mistake? Soon, Cleone discovers that she has rivals.
Subjects: Fiction, Romance, Historical, Regency, Mate selection, fiction, Great Britain, England, Literature, Women authors, Fiction, general, Fiction, romance, action & adventure, Fiction, romance, historical, general, First loves -- Fiction, Love stories, Mate selection -- Fiction, British -- France -- Paris -- Fiction, Regency fiction, Fiction, Mate selection, British, First loves
Places: England, Great Britain, Paris France
People: Cleone Charter, Philip Jettan
Time periods: Georgian Era