LADY VELVET / PETALS OF THE ROSE

Please see any and all photos connected with this listing. Cover and spine are good with only mild shelf/rub wear. No dog-eared corners. Solid Binding. All pages intact and legible. Clean. Store stamped. --- --- LADY VELVET --- Headstrong tomboy Lady Velvet grows into a ravishing beauty, with all the eligible bachelors of London at her feet, much to the dismay of her childhood love, the Marquis of Talgarth. --- PETALS OF THE ROSE --- She was like a rose, drawing the young men of the London ton to her beauty, but Hosanna Shelton spurned all those eager bees. What she needed, she decided, was an older man--one with fewer demands. A suitable husband who would be a pleasant companion and who would give her independence under the protective shield of matrimony, who would set her free, unchaperoned, to enjoy the social whirl. . . . .Rosanna found her man and even signed the marriage contract. Then Charles wandered into her life--invading her dreams, upsetting her schemes, opening her heart like Petals of the Rose. . .…