The fortunate belle

As the indisputable belle among the bevy of the Lacebridge lovelies, Elizabeth was extravagantly spoiled and accustomed to getting her own way. Supremely confident of her dazzling charms, she determined to set her cap for no less than the richest bachelor in sight. Emerging as the toast of the social season, she was besieged by host of London's most eligible and dashing young men as well as one slightly older, if handsome and sophisticated, suitor who impressed her not at all. As she shamelessly calculated who could best satisfy her high ambitions, she thought she had considered everything.But she had never planned on actually giving her heart- and to, of all people an older but wiser gentleman who was still young enough to teach the astonished beauty there was more to the game of love than money