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When the daughters, sisters, and mothers of several men from town approach the Pastor Joshua for his blessing on a church endorsed mail order bride scheme the frazzled Minister sees a way to stop all the advances of the mayor’s daughter. He slips his own letter into the packet before it is mailed out to the churches in Richmond, Philadelphia, and Chicago seeking his own bride. When the stage arrives with the brides, Joshua finds his didn’t make the trip. However, his heart has chosen another, his intended’s best friend.

Annalee Spencer and Wayland Smith were uninhibited young lovers until the Peterloo Massacre set them on two different paths. Raised to the title of Baron of Darlington in recognition of his courage, Wayland is now a model of propriety and heroism. As for Annalee, the trauma of that tragic day in Manchester is ever present. To dull the pain, she lives only for pleasure. And she derives immense pleasure from co-leading the Mismatch Society, a league of scandalously independent women. Perhaps too scandalous....