Both young women craned their necks to see past taller gentlemen and ladies feathers to identify the cause of the commotion. Margaret resisted, not wanting anyone to see her dressed to depart, but Emily ignored her and stepped closer. The Maid of Fairbourne Hall - Deseret Book What Can We Help You Find Subscriptions (4797) (417) Authors & Artists Deseret Book Company (527) The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (376) Doodle Beads (364) Ringmasters (278) Robert A. The reliable Klassen has produced a well-realized genre winner in which Christian elements are subtle and historically appropriate. Emily grasped Margarets wrist and pulled her into the ballroom. The upstairs-downstairs dynamic of the upper and serving classes puts meat on the story’s bones. In a tale of disguise and transformation with echoes of The Prince and the Pauper and perhaps a dash of Shakespearean heroine, Margaret’s character and judgment are enriched as she works for a living-and it wouldn’t be a Regency romance without a suitable suitor for her. Margaret literally becomes the poor little rich girl as she is forced to take a job as a housemaid, disguising herself as Nora Garret to work in the home of Nathaniel Upchurch, whose marriage proposal she had rejected, hoping to snare his dashing older brother Lewis instead. Margaret Macy, who is soon to inherit a fortune that will allow her to be independent, flees the home of her stepfather rather than be forced to marry his odious fortune-hunting nephew. Christy winner Klassen (The Girl in the Gatehouse) mines another gem of a story from the rich Regency vein.
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