One prize – the exquisite Framleigh Hall

Two major drawbacks - the boorish, brainless and repulsive son and heir along

with his merry widow of a mother who will move only as far as the Lodge upon his marriage

Three would-be-wives - two plain, one beautiful;  two with brains and one with native cunning;

one sweet, one sour and one whose past is cloaked in shadows

Four red herrings - a profligate, promiscuous younger son;  the merry widow’s aristocratic and intelligent lawyer lover;  a premature birth and a blackmailing bigamist of a butler

Five hundred pages  - the drama begins at the last of the Season’s summer balls

and ends fifteen years later with the only possible, legitimate winner finally

in triumphant possession

You cannot afford to skip a single page of this engrossing, enthralling tale

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Week #10’s response to Lisa Ricard Claro’s Book Blurb Friday challenge and Becky Povich’s photo.   Each week Lisa posts a photograph which represents a book cover.   Participants are challenged to “Write a book jacket blurb (150 words or less) so enticing that potential readers would feel compelled to buy the book”   The number of ought-to-be but not-yet-written books, sadly, increases weekly.

http://www.writinginthebuff.net/p/book-blurb-friday.html