Publishers description Seventeen year old Althea bears a heavy burden on her slender shoulders. She must support her widowed mother, young brother, and two stepsisters who plead poverty and must maintain Crawley Castle, a tumbledown folly designed and built by her great grandfather. Althea, in short, must marry well. But there are a few wealthy suitors or suitors of any kind, in their small Yorkshire town of Lesser Hoo. Then Lord Boring comes to stay with his aunt akd uncle. Althea immediately starts a cleaver, stealthy campaign to hecome Lady Boring. Theres only one problem, his cousin and buisness manager, Mr. Fredericks, keeps getting in the way, and, as it turns out Fredericks has his own set of plans.

ISBN: 9780545536325