Just last night, Lady Weatherby told me that her cousin said, that her husband overheard Lord Melvin say how very taken he was with your beauty.Ĭharlotte struggled to place the name with a face.

Her head leaned in, and her voice lowered.

She wrapped a hand around Charlotte’s elbow. Lady Markham paused as if working out her next move. Why are you concerned about my height all of a sudden? I am the same height I have been since I was seventeen. The weather had finally grown warm enough in late April to go outside without a cape. A gentle spring breeze teased at the feathers and ruffled the lace sleeves of her muslin gown. The feathers made her happy with their beautiful concentric circles of blues and greens. Certainly, those feathers add inches to your height.Ĭharlotte raised a hand and ran her fingers across the smooth peacock feathers, which decorated her wide-brimmed hat. And in that same vein, I think you should cease to wear such tall hats. If you wore flat slippers instead, then it would make you appear more petite. Why would they care a wit about my footwear?īecause you are already too tall for a lady. I am merely pointing out the height of my heeled boots can hardly matter to prospective suitors. The sooner they were home, the sooner she could escape this ridiculous conversation. Last night it had rained, and the walking path through Hyde Park was strewn with little white flower petals fallen from the dogwoods which stood sentry. 'Charlotte Grisham, what a thing to say to your own mother! I did not raise my daughter to be so impertinent,' Lady Markham whispered, her voice indignant.Ĭharlotte groaned inwardly and quickened her pace. Charlotte knows her duty, but what about her heart? Read more

But perfect girls do not share searing kisses with men who are not their betrothed. What could possibly go wrong?Ĭharlotte immediately realizes her fiancé has sent in a doppelgänger, but continues the ruse so no one will realize her fiancé has all but abandoned her. They used to pretend to be each other all the time in their youth. Daniel allows his twin to talk him into going to the week-long house party in his stead…just for a few days. Moreover, he’s begging off his own engagement party. Before Charlotte knows it, she is engaged to be married.ĭaniel Weston can’t believe his identical twin brother is marrying a lady he barely knows. The Marquis of Hawksridge is titled, handsome, and heroic-precisely the kind of gentleman her parents want for her husband. When Charlotte Grisham is saved from an out-of-control carriage by a handsome gentleman, she knows fate has sent her the perfect man.

A Perfect Engagement by Karla Kratovil