Although at the time, the news of her family’s change of status was hugely upsetting, she now realises that what happened has set her free in a way she could never have imagined being before. Abby is now twenty-four, and has spent most of the six intervening years resisting her family’s urging to resume her life in society and find a husband. She was approaching her come out and her eighteenth birthday when her father was discovered to have married her mother bigamously, meaning that she and her siblings – sister Camille and brother Harry – were illegitimate and that Harry could not inherit the Riverdale title (which passed to their cousin, Alex).

For behind the appearances of the once-grand lady and the once-humble man are two people who share an understanding of what true honor means, and how only with it can one find love.The heroine of Someone to Honor, the sixth book in Mary Balogh’s series about the Westcott family is Abigail Westcott, the younger daughter of the late Earl of Riverdale. If at first Gil and Abigail seem to embody what the other most despises, each will soon discover how wrong first impressions can be. Gil has come to help his friend and junior officer recover, and he doesn't take lightly to being condescended to-secretly because of his own humble beginnings. He is Gilbert Bennington, the lieutenant colonel and superior officer who has escorted her wounded brother, Harry, home from the wars with Napoleon.

Indeed, she's grown confident enough to scold the careless servant chopping wood outside without his shirt on in the proximity of ladies.īut the man is not a servant. But now, six years later, she enjoys the independence a life without expectation provides a wealthy single woman. First appearances deceive in the newest charming and heartwarming Regency romance in the Westcott series from beloved New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh.Ībigail Westcott's dreams for her future were lost when her father died and she discovered her parents were not legally married.

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