The famous heroine ; The plumed bonnet
(Book)

"Two novels in one volume!"--Cover.

The famous heroine - Cora Downes has beauty, spirit, and money, but no breeding. Yet when she gains renown for a dring rescue, she finds herslf thrust into high society. Innocent and adrift in a world of beautiful banquets, bejeweled gowns, and snobbish standards, Cora is quickly compromised into a marriage - to a frivolous lord whose interests seem to lie elsewhere. But could piercingly blue-eyed and well-mannered Francis Kneller turn out to be the most unexpected love of her life?

The plumed bonnet - Alistair Munro, the Duke of Bridgewater, is looking for love outside the bounds of polite society. And that's what he expects to receive when he rescues a semminly disreputable girl in a colorful bonnet off the side of the road. Yet Stephanie Gray, a former governess, has recently come into money and is eager for a proper match with a well-born man. Sure that he's sullied her name, Alistair offers marriage to make amends. And in this unlikely union, Stephanie and Alistair make a welcome discovery - that sometimes it's possible to marry first, and then fall in love.