"The whole scheme hangs on you, my love." So begins Lady Mulholland's directive to Henry Granger, her one and only son. He is to bring suitable gentlemen home from Oxford and he is to make all haste. There are seven daughters to be married--Violet, Rose, Daisy, Marigold, Lily and the twins, Poppy and Pansy--an undertaking that will span a decade. Lady Mulholland, however, is not faint of heart. She devised her plan on a long ago evening when she happened...