Of course, Frederica’s just not that interested in a bumbling, smiling fool who thinks there are 12 Commandments instead of 10 and who’s never heard of peas. Susan’s determined to see her young, pretty daughter-who’s as earnest, innocent and delightful as her mother is devious and sly-married off to “vastly rich, but rather simple” Sir James Martin. The Vernons are aghast at the very thought!īut when Lady Susan’s estranged late-teen daughter, Frederica, unexpectedly shows up, well, suddenly there’s a bit of a competition for Reginald’s affections. Ultimately, if Lady Susan can’t have Lord Manwaring, she tells her confidant and American friend, Alicia Johnson, then perhaps she should set her sights on young Reginald DeCourcy, the brother of Charles Vernon’s wife, Catherine. Indeed, once she’s comfortably ensconced there, you practically need a flowchart to track the connecting lines of romantic intrigue.
So what’s a homeless noblewoman long on manipulative, effervescent charm and woefully short on morals to do? Why, beg to stay at the estate of her brother-in-law, Charles Vernon, of course-a place positively pulsating with new relational potential for someone with Lady Susan’s, ahem, particular set of skills.
Now, Lady Lucy Manwaring’s no fool, and she soon tosses the homewrecker out. She’s not known as “the most accomplished flirt” in 18th-century England for nothing, after all.Īfter the death of her husband (whom, rumor suggests, she treated shockingly shabbily), she’s wormed her way into the home of the Lord and Lady Manwaring … and it’s soon being whispered that she’s having an affair with the Lord. You see, Lady Susan has a way of enchanting men … and enraging women.
The Lady Susan Vernon is the kind of woman whose reputation precedes her.
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