Contrary Cousins
TO THWART AN EARL
was Lady Pendleton's dearest desire, and that was why she had taken it into her head to invite her two delightful young American nieces to England. Her brother, the pompous Earl of Cumberford, absolutely loathed the American branch of the family, and when the Powell cousins took London society by storm, he would be livid with rage. Lady Pendleton was certain her plan would succeed, for lovely Antonia was irresistibly charming, and once Serena was transformed by a stunning new hairdo and a magnificently stylish wardrobe, she, too, would be besieged by a wealth of suitors.

But if Lady Pendleton could have foreseen how well her scheme would work and just which lords would soon be courting her charges in earnest, she would never have let Antonia and Serena off the boat from America...