Miss Beaumont's Companion, a Victorian Romance Novella (Previously published in Barbour's Southern Belle Brides Collection) Baton Rouge, Louisiana—1892 When lady’s companion Aria St. Angelo is coerced into posing as her political employer’s absent daughter for the evening at the Louisiana Governor’s masquerade ball, she wasn’t planning on falling for Byron Roderick, the most eligible bachelor in the capitol. Byron Roderick is taken with the woman he knows as Mildred Beaumont, but when he discovers the lady's true identity, more than just his heart is at stake.