The Practical Heart — Fiona Hill

Miss Gillian Spencer was faced with quite a challenge. Impossible was the word she gave it, but her ever-hopeful employer, the Viscount Sherbourne, would hear none of that. The facts were that the Viscount hadn't a farthing at his command, and his London house was a ruin. If his two charming and beautiful daughters were to rescue the family's standing by marrying wealth--"making advantageous connexions," the doggedly euphemistic Viscount would have it--Miss Spencer's work was certainly cut out for her. At the advanced age of 27, Gillian herself had dismissed the possibility of marriage for herself, of course--but who can predict where her talent for romantic intrigue on others' behalf might lead her?