If you are the oldest little girl, you don’t get to have any kind of fun!

Witty, orphaned Tess Essex faces her duty: marry very well and marry quickly, so she may arrange matches for her 3 sisters — gorgeous Annabel, romantic Imogen and useful Josie. In the end, right now they’re beneath the rather awkward guardianship from the perpetually tipsy Duke of Holbrook. But simply when she starts to think that might end well, one of her sisters bolts with a horse-mad youthful lord, and her own fiancé simply plain runs away.

Which leaves Tess contemplating marriage to the sort of man she wants to avoid — among London’s most infamous rakes. Lucius Felton is certainly a rogue whose personal mother considers him irredeemable! He’s delicious, Annabel points out. And he’s wealthy, Josie notes. But although Tess finally consents to marry him, it might be for the most severe reason of most. Absurd mainly because she knows it to become, she may have fallen absolutely in love .