Description
In the Regency Era, four young ladies and their brother grow up with an affectionate mother and a loving father. The youngest, Lucy Palmer, has grown up to the teachings of rising author Jane Austen while the other three sisters are subject to their mother's constant fusing and demands that they marry young, handsome, rich men to lift the family from despair while their brother, their father's heir, spends his time drinking and making rash descisions. When a new arrival comes to the close-knit community of the Derbyshire country side, every mother is competing for the young man's attention for their daughters. Can Lucy and her siblings be free of their mother's desires and marry for affection or will they be forced into indifferent marriages?
Chapter 1
