Life is finally looking up for the poor relations, but their success is in stark contrast to the plight of their latest guest, Lady Jane Fremney, who has been cast out of her family for refusing to marry the man her father has chosen.

Seeking her independence, Lady Rose Summer leaves her parents' home to join the working class, but when an acquaintance turns up dead, Captain Harry Cathcart and Superintendent Kerridge of Scotland Yard enlist her aid.

Eliza Budley is a beautiful widow whose husband gambled away his fortune. Lady Fortescue reminds the others that to be fair, Mrs. Budley has no relatives on whom she can call. Gentle Mrs. Budley thinks she has escaped her fate until Sir Philip comes up with a plan: He has heard that the elderly Marquess of Peterhouse is senile, a widower, extremely rich, and unlikely to remember whether Mrs. Budley is a relative or not. So off Mrs. Budley goes to...

Minerva marks the delightful debut of The Six Sisters, a family saga in six volumes that will recount the romantic adventures of the six marriageable daughters of a country vicar, the Reverend Charles Armitage, in Regency England. The eldest, Minerva, is enchantingly beautiful-but a prude. She lives in the country looking after her siblings while her mother reclines on a chaise longue happily inventing new malaises. Her father, a vicar of decidedly...

Diana shares her father's passion for the hunt, but that is not proper for a lady in Regency England. Lord Charles Dantry upsets all the best-laid plans to turn Diana into a proper young lady.

Amy and Effy Tribble, professional chaperones, are hired to prepare a young women for a society marriage. She has been spurned by a man she loved and wants nothing to do with another match. However, she soon learns she may have made more trouble for herself than she can handle and turns to the Tribbles for assistance.