The Sandalwood Fan

THE BEST-LAID PLANS...

Penelope Bransome had learned how thoroughly unpleasant love could be during her brief marriage. She was little more than a girl when wed, and by the time her husband's death released her she was a young woman determined never to be ensnared by a man again.

Handsome, dashing Lord Charles Mortimer had more adoration than her could possibly want as England's greatest hero and as the favorite of London's most ravishing lady, the beautiful, blue-blooded Georgina Staverton.

Clearly Lord Mortimer could have no interest in the retiring Penelope. Clearly Penelope had no fear of ties to this man whose realm of pleasure was a world away from her quiet, sensible life. Then they were thrown together -- and suddenly nothing was clear except certain feelings that both of them did not dare admit and that neither could ignore...