Sarah's loving benefactor is dead, the solicitor will sell her home, her only friends in the world are moving, and the man she thought she would one day marry has stopped responding to her. Determined to be the mistress of her own destiny, with or without a man, would be nearly impossible. Her lord, who would be a duke, has stopped corresponding with her. What was to become of her? Time to make her own way, even if she felt woefully unprepared...