A Capital Match

AN AFFAIR OF STATE

With bonnet in place, purse in hand, and traveling bags buckled, Deanna Perry was off to Washington. Possibly the prettiest Quaker lass in Philadelphia, her radiant beauty had unwittingly won the heart of every suitor intended for her two older, plainer sisters. Now safely out of town, she had barely set foot in the capital when her meddlesome aunt most unsubtly paired her off with an eligible nobleman. He was Bryce Forrester, newly arrived from England, dashing but aloof--and Deanna responded with icy distance. She did not know that the uppity Bryce had his own reasons for avoiding her. Nor did she know that Aunt Finche's good friend, Dolley Madison, had taken over matchmaking honors ... and the First Lady was to prove first-rate at helping a homesick Quaker girl and a travel-weary aristocrat discover what everybody else already knew!