Dorothea

The third in a trilogy of Regency romantic comedies by Catherine Moorhouse that are linked by major or minor characters. Dorothea Sandham, trapped as an unpaid companion to her distant cousin, Miss Leticia Grayson, reluctantly goes along to pay an intrusive condolence call on a grieving young widower, Sir Tate Bancroft. Having lost his lovely Portuguese bride in childbirth, and having been goaded by the bullying of "Vicious Letitia", Tate proposes a marriage of convenience to Dorothea. She agrees, but only so that she might care for his infant daughter while he returns to to duty - and…