Chapter One London,England - 1805 Reckless — that's what she is. The girl is simply too wild and reckless for any respectable young man to marry.' Thin gray eyebrows lifted in disapproval, Lady Dempsey peered through her jeweled lorgnette to examine the red-haired girl standing next to the punch bowl. 'There was a time, you know, she was the darling of the ton. Turboprint 2 Serial Number.
Her father must be terribly disappointed.' 'Indeed,' Lady Sarah agreed. 'Why, the rumors I've heard.' She shook her head. 'It's a good thing her mother — poor dear woman — isn't alive to see.' Over the top of a potted palm in the Earl of Winston's ornate Mayfair town house, Clayton Harcourt studied the object of the women's scorn. He knew Kassandra Wentworth, had met her four years ago when she was first introduced into the marriage mart.
