All's Fayre in Love and War — Sheri Cobb South

Determined not to be a burden to her family, twenty-seven-year-old widow Caroline Fayre Cummings takes a position of governess to the Earl of Westermain's motherless children in order to provide for her six-year-old son.

She soon discovers, however, that something is terribly wrong in the earl's Park Lane establishment. Lord Westermain spends most of his time at the War Office in Whitehall, but his absence hardly seems to matter: when he is home, he ignores his heir, thirteen-year-old Edward, Viscount Wexton, and treats his seventeen-year-old daughter, Lady Lucia, with contempt.

As for Lucia, is she really so fascinated by the stable cat's newborn kittens, or do her frequent visits to the mews have more to do with the handsome young stable hand who works there? When a trip to Bartholomew Fair reveals the truth about the late Lady Westermain, Caroline knows she must do what she can to help this troubled family find its way back to one another -- even if it means opening her own heart once again to the dual risks of love and loss.