The Lady Drusilla

Considered a spinster, Lady Drusilla Rudney has only one role in life: to chaperone her sister. So when her flighty sibling elopes, Dru knows she has to stop her She employs the help of a traveling companion, who looks harmless enough.... Former army captain John Hendricks is intrigued by this damsel in distress. Once embroiled with her in a mad dash across England, he discovers that Dru is no simpering woman. Her unconventional ways make him want to forget his gentlemanly conduct...and create a scandal all their own

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. JEOPARDY. I Had been almost three weeks at Tenby, and Winton and myself had visited in company with the Drusillas most of what is worth seeing in the neighbourhood of the town. The evening after the scene with Lady Drusilla, Winton, when he came to me, proposed that we might make an excursion to the Hoyle, and endeavour to ascertain its real extent. I readily assented; and it was arranged that we should make the attempt on the following day at noon. I did not breathe a word of what hadhappened between Lady Drusilla and myself, as I had intended when I invited my friend to visit me. I resolved to take an opportunity hereafter. All who have been to Tenby will recollect the Hoyle Cavern. It is invested by popular credulity with many and curious traditions, and local authorities point it out to visitors as the entrance of a subterranean passage?ten miles long?leading to Pembroke, and formerly used by the memorable rulers of the district as a means of secret communication between that town and Tenby. Years ago?I have never been able to ascertain how many?this cavern became, for a short time, an object of the most intense interest. A commercial traveller, while pursuing his calling at Teuby, left the hotel at which he had been staying, and was not again seen. As soon as he was missed, search wasmade for him in all directions?but in vain. It was at first supposed he had absconded with the money of his employers; but, on the arrival of an agent who was immediately sent down by the firm he represented, his accounts were found to be strictly correct. Other causes were then assigned for his disappearance. Some believed he had committed suicide by throwing himself into the sea; some attributed his death to an act of vengeance; others argued that it must hav...

Considered a spinster, Lady Drusilla Rudney has only one role in life: to chaperone her sister. So when her flighty sibling elopes, Dru knows she has to stop her! She employs the help of a traveling companion, who looks harmless enough…. Former army captain John Hendricks is intrigued by this damsel in distress. Once embroiled with her in a mad dash across England, he discovers that Dru is no simpering woman. Her unconventional ways make him want to forget his gentlemanly conduct…and create a scandal all their own!

Drusilla Herbert, a rector’s daughter, is sent to assist the ailing Marchioness of Brentford at her son’s country estate. Who would have though she would become entangled in intrigues of the ton? Adrian Richmond, Marquis of Brentford, mistakes Drusilla’s mission as being one to provide herself with a generous bequest—and he’ll have none of it. Regency Romance by Emily Hendrickson; originally published by Signet

The Will To Survive Is Mankind's Greatest Weapon. They won an interplanetary war; now they must survive the aftermath. In the last interplanetary war a bioweapon killed or sterilized all the males on Vensoog. To keep the colony alive, the Matchmaker Program finds ex-soldiers like Zack Jackson, a hard-as-nails ex-recon soldier who no longer has a home planet and offer him a new home on Vensoog if he is willing to marry a Vensoog woman. With his home world now pile of radioactive ash, Zack desperately needs a new home for himself and his kids, so he accepts the offer. When the Matchmaker Program pairs him with Katherine, they both wonder if it is a match made in Heaven or Hell? They need to find out quick, because the ruthless Thieves Guild wants the valuable data cube their kids stole back. And they are willing to kill anyone who gets in their way. Plus, Katherine is falling in love with her new husband and she hasn't a clue if he feels the same about her…

This volume, part of Lockyer's All Series, contains detailed indexing of the life and times of all the women of the Bible.

Edited by Francis J. Reynolds, this anthology contains mystery tales by Baroness Orczy, Jacques Futrelle, Oswald Crawfurd, Henry C. Rowland, and Louis Joseph Vance.