The Earl Escapes — Barbara Cartland

England, 1886.

Lord Hue, the Earl of Dolphinston, was the cynosure of the sparkling, scandalous Marlborough House set. But while jaded court beauties vied for his favors, the passionate and dangerous Lady Hester Stansfield plotted to make the handsome peer her husband -- by any means necessary Until the Earl discovered a most unlikely saviour in Valencia Hadley, the shy but resolute and lovely country Vicar's daughter.