Magic Flutes // The Reluctant Heiress

She was an exquisite, but penniless, Austrian princess, heiress to fabled Pfaffenstein Castle and expected to marry Prince Maximilian. But Tessa rarely did what was expected. Disguised as a wardrobe mistress, she secretly joined a Vienna opera company...and unexpectedly lost her heart to a mysterious Englishman. Fabulously rich, rakishly handsome, he had just bought Pfaffenstein Castle as a wedding gift for his beautiful, snobbish fiancee. But he was about to be captivated by a waif of a girl known only as Tessa...and the stage would be set for a romance sparkling with laughter and tears, as magical and enchanting as love's eternal spell.

Winner of the Romantic Novel of the Year Award (1983) by the Romantic Novelists' Association.