BookList - Denise Perry Donavin
This first novel was a finalist for Random House's New Idea Fiction Prize for 1991. Australian Jacobs writes smoothly in the Regency genre, incorporating familiar story lines and appropriate detailing into her tale of two orphaned young women raised by an ailing, elderly dowager who wishes to see them settled into good marriages before her demise. The younger, Eleanor, plots and schemes to marry a man of her own choosing, but the older, Eleanor's Aunt Beatrice, decides she must sacrifice love for the sake of her niece. Naturally, all ends well.