Nothing But Scandal
Chapter One
London, April 1814
Family expectations-and the guilt that came with
not living up to them-were going to be the death of
Elizabeth Medford.
Given that her father, Baron James Medford, had
hardly been a bastion of familial responsibility himself,
having amassed a mountain of gaming debts prior to
his untimely death, it seemed unfair that the remaining
members of the family should expect that she,
Elizabeth, would salvage them by marrying Harold
Wetherby. Her third cousin might have a respectable
income, but the memory of Harold's sweaty hands
pawing her at a picnic when she'd been a mere fourteen
years old was enough to convince her she simply
could not, could not marry him.
And since she'd otherwise been a resounding failure
in the marriage mart, Elizabeth had devised a new
plan-one to be implemented that very morning.
The moment breakfast was over, she'd hastily ushered
her younger sister, Charity, and their maid, Emma,
out the door of the Medford town house and into Hyde
Park for a stroll, ignoring her sister's nonstop stream of
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