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An advantageous marriage.

by Alice Chetwynd Ley

The scheming Turville family have met their match. 1816, England The aristocratic Turvilles had always deplored an unfortunate connection with Trade through the marriage twenty years previously of the Barons brother with the daughter of a Yorkshire manufacturer. But, Eugenia, only child of this marriage is not only an orphan she is also her grandfathers sole heir and extremely wealthy. Keen to keep the Turville money in the family, Lady Turville deigns to overlook her nieces rustic manners in order to force a match between Eugenia and one of her sons. But Eugenia is not the simple country girl she was expecting. Will Lady Turvilles plans come to pass. Could Eugenia fall for one of her cousins charms Or will she make an advantageous marriage elsewhere.

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