MUST ONE SISTER SUFFER IN POVERTY WHILE THE OTHERS LIVE IN THE LAP OF LUXURY? Must one indeed, thought Harriet Clifton. Inviting herself to her widowed sister Cordelia's posh London townhouse for the Season was surely the only way to meet a mate—and escape draughty old Pringle House forever. The vain Cordelia was meanwhile casting her net for the notorious Marquess of Arden, a man who preferred paying a mistress to wedding a wife. Who would have believed that the Marquess would succumb to Harriet's countrified charms? or that Cordelia would stoop quite so low to try to conquer him at her sister's expense?