The Scandal

Lady Winifred Westerly has agreed to marry Richard, Viscount Danleigh. Unfortunately, they just can't manage to overcome their families. Bad enough that Winifred is known to half of London as "Flighty Freddy," now Freddy's self-absorbed mother-the Scandal of London-has been accused of murdering her lover, Sir Taverner. Quite unreasonably to Freddy's way of thinking, her father and godmother have forbidden her to marry Dickie on the grounds that his reputation is nearly as shaky as her own. They want her to marry someone steady and sensible who will curb her wilder impulses. To this end, both Lady Evans and Freddy's father the earl are throwing their own contenders at Freddy's head in the hope she will agree to marry her father's crony Lord Fordweather, or her godmother's selection, Mr. Montgomery. There is nothing for it but for Freddy to once again unravel the disaster, prove her mother's innocence and nab the real murderer.