Seventeen-year old Athea bears a heavy burden on her slender shoulders. She must support her widowed mother, young brother, two stepsisters who plead poverty--and she must maintain Crawley Castle, a tumbledown folly designed and built by her great--grandfather. Althea, in short, must marry well. But there are few wealthy suitors--or suitors of any kind--in their small Yorkshire town of Lester Hoo.
Then Lord Boring comes to stay with his aunt and uncle. Althea immediately starts a clever, stealthy campaign to become Lady Boring. There's only one problem; his cousin and business manager, Mr. Fredericks, keeps getting in the way. And it turns out, Fredericks has his own set of plans...
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