The Ambitious Baronet

DREAM LOVER

"Wish always with Love..." Or so Miss Alexandra Barlow reads from an inscription on a locket given to her by the mysterious woman of the woods. The locket is supposed to grant one's fondest desires--but when she envisions her perfect love, Alex's life goes to pieces instead. Her father just gambled away the family fortune, leaving Alex and her sisters penniless, forcing her to work as a housekeeper.

But when the handsome new lord of the manor, Sir Robert Stamford, arrives on a secret mission, Alex suddenly finds herself caught between the machinations of the ton, her duty to her family, and Sir Robert's love--which has suddenly become her fondest desire...