text clean, binding tight, edge wear, pages yellowed, spine & covers creased, paperback, Dell/Emerald 04990, 1983, 390 pages, first edition, Additional Details ------------------------------ Product description: The second in a trilogy of Regency romantic comedies by Catherine Moorhouse that are linked by major or minor characters.Louisa Newcomb, still mourning the death of her beloved mother, is stunned when her wealthy father finds solace all too quickly by marrying an unspeakable woman with two beautiful daughters of her own. Louisa soon finds herself the “ungainly cuckoo in Drusilla Newcomb’s well-feathered nest”, a particularly painful position, especially when her stepsisters are courted by the fascinating Jason Fielding, the Earl of Ashbury. And when Louisa seeks to earn her own independent future by penning a novel satirizing her despicable step relations, she finds that she has unwittingly revealed her own heart to the man she loves.