Her "maid", Desiree, has taught her well - men are not to be trusted, or loved, only to be used. Determined to live without the heartbreak of love, she sets out for her Season, ready to dazzle. Sophie, on the other hand, doesn't seem to see, or feel, the shame. This becomes difficult when Sophie, daughter of his father's mistress, shows up with a letter from Bram's father, stating his intent to fund her Season. back, in order to live down the terrible shame of his father's life - and death. Bram is determined to live his life with something of a broomstick up his. Years later, the event has changed two lives and been the cause of many a tongue-in-cheek joke. Sophie's mother and Bramwell's father brought some real life to Lady Buxley's boring house party with their spectacular, much gossiped about, deaths. Michaels, however, recovered nicely and surprised me more than I actually care to admit. had not yet been invented"? Then how can it exist? When the first sentence is such a grand example of butchery of the English language, there's little hope. I expected less than that from this one, which began with this nearly nonsensical sentence: "If there existed anything more stultifyingly dull than one of Lady Buxley's house parties, that gloomy event had not yet been invented." I literally had to stop and re-read it over and over to be sure that it was what it was. ISBN 0446605824 - I rarely expect much from a romance novel.
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