In this Edwardian romance by a New York Times–bestselling author, things get all too real for a naïve young lady with a penchant for playacting.

Miss Marjorie Montmorency-James is lovely, young, and very impressionable. All these characteristics contrive to help her fall in love with a certain Lord Philip’s picture when it appears in the newspaper. Until the day she sees Lord Philip’s photo, she has only fantasized about a mysterious lover whose shadowy features are never quite clear.

Now she has a real live nobleman to dream about. Little does she suspect that she will soon meet Lord Philip in the flesh. How can she imagine such a thing? After all, what can justify a daughter of the middle class rubbing shoulders with the nobility?

Then suddenly that great day is upon her; she is to meet Lord Philip. But nothing turns out the way Marjorie expects. Love—and danger—lay waiting for Marjorie in London…

ABOUT THE COLLECTION

What could be more engaging than the women who rise from the commoner classes and minor nobility to triumph in the unforgiving high society of London. Read about women who have lost their fortunes, country girls at their first season, and new wives who can’t resist temptation in the nine titles of the Changing Fortunes Collection.