Countess Carrots — Molly Costain Haycraft

All the passions of the human heart warred in the beauteous flame-haired Elizabeth Percy, wife, widow but still maiden at the age of 15. Freed from a cruel marriage of convenience by the timely demise of her husband-in-name-only, the young heiress now faced new peril as her scheming, ruthlessly ambitious grandmother sought yet another unseemly match.

Elizabeth had no choice but to flee the seething intrigues that filled the court of wanton Charles II...into the arms of a notoriously handsome nobleman whose ardor for her would not be restrained...and into a maze of danger that threatened to make her a pawn of passion and power...