When the Wrexham ladies are left without a penny in the world, it seems that marriage to the elderly Mr. Wimple is the only way Charlotte can provide for her gentle, helpless mama. But the beautiful and spirited Charlotte reasons that if she must sell herself, she will do so to the highest bidder and so the ladies set off for London and the Season. But all Charlotte’s careful plans go awry when she meets the dashing but hopelessly ineligible Viscount Carlington.
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