Dainty S Cruel Rivals

This is a mystery story written in the late nineteenth century by an author who was very popular in her day. It begins as two young school teachers receive an invitation to stay with their rich aunt in her country house. They are hopeful of 'trapping' a possible husband there during their stay as they learn that she has also invited her step-son Lovelace Ellsworth. There is but one problem; their young cousin Dainty.....

"[...] It was true, what the sweet, patient woman said; she was not related to them at all, but she had boarded them at the cheapest rates, and been most kind and motherly. They had intended to pay what they owed that very day, but jealousy of her daughter, their lovely cousin, crept in between and made them withhold the pittance, in the malicious hope of preventing Dainty's trip to Ellsworth. Both girls were handsome and stylish in their way-Olive, a tall, dark, haughty brunette of twenty-four, while Ela Craye was twenty-two, pretty and delicate-looking, with a waxen skin, thick brown hair, and limpid, long-lashed gray eyes. Each girl cherished a hope of winning the rich and handsome heir [...]".

In Dainty's Cruel Rivals, a pair of bitter young ladies tirelessly bully the innocent beauty Dainty Chase. Will she get her comeuppance?

Although it's hard to tell by her pen name, this popular writer of mystery novels was a woman, and she was enormously successful in her era. Miller is best known for a series of high-drama mysteries imbued with action-adventure plot twists and memorable characters. In Dainty's Cruel Rivals, a pair of bitter young ladies tirelessly bully the innocent beauty Dainty Chase. Will she get her comeuppance?

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