Mannerby's Lady
Sandra Heath

A spirited you beauty flees Regency England's most unspeakable suitor--and runs into the perils of a forbidden romance

SHE REFUSED TO BE A BARTERED BRIDE-AND BECAME A CAPTIVE IN AN ARISTOCRATIC CAGE

To some, the great manor of Mannerby might have seemed a lovely country retreat. To beautiful Sarah Jane Stratford, it was a hateful prison to which she had been consigned for the crime of spuming the odious boor whom her noble father had ignobly chosen to be her husband.

Always close at hand was her captor, the infuriatingly arrogant Paul Ransome, who clearly believed every scandalous rumor about Sarah Jane. Frustratingly far away was the handsome, gallant Jack Holland, to whom Sarah Jane was eager to give her hand, her good name, and anything else he chose to desire.

Sarah Jane vowed to brook no obstacle of social censure nor pitfall of prudish propriety on her path to true love - only to discover what sinister snares passion could set, and how treacherous a guide the heart could be....

Signet (Regency), August 1986
ISBN #0451144392
224 pages Paperback
$2.50