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Secrets of a Summer Night
by Lisa Kleypas
Book 1 in the Wallflowers series.
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Penniless gentlewoman Annabelle Peyton joins three other overlooked young women in an alliance to help each other secure suitable husbands. Her pursuit of an aristocratic match is complicated by Simon Hunt, a wealthy self-made man whose lack of title makes him unacceptable to her family but whose attention is difficult to resist.
The novel opens the Wallflowers sequence in early Victorian society, where marriage, dowry and family solvency are inseparable. Simon’s commercial wealth challenges an aristocratic order increasingly dependent on industrial and mercantile fortunes.
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