Lessons in Love

[Read by Vanessa Benjamin]

One of Marion Chesney's best Regencies features a young woman betrothed at the tender age of ten to the gentleman that had kidnapped her.

Lady Lucinda Esmond's womanizing, gambler of a father, the Earl of Sotheran, was forever fleecing young bucks in London's gaming halls with impunity - until Captain Mark Chamfrey who, having been cheated, does not want to be made a fool again and kidnaps ten-year-old Lucinda for ransom.

But when Chamfrey has a change of heart and returns the girl, Earl Esmond nonetheless exacts his own Chamfrey can only redeem himself and save his skin by marrying his little victim nine years hence.

Lucinda's father could not have foreseen what a beauty Lucinda would become, nor that Chamfrey, a newly made Marquess, would find that what was supposed to be his punishment turns out be exactly what he desires!