Serena Carlow's former love now controls her future happiness.

After her father's unexpected death, Serena's jilted ex-fiance - the marquis of Rotherham - is made the sole trustee of her wealth and marriage prospects.

Eager for an escape, she moves to Bath and encounters her childhood sweetheart, the dashing Hector Kirkby - but will Rotherham approve the match?

Before long, they are all entangled in a confusion of marriage and manners the likes of which Regency Bath has rarely seen.


`I've read her over and over and over again' Stephen Fry

`Utterly delightful' The Guardian